Hi Robert,

We have submitted version 08 of draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-deployment to address the 
comments and nits received after the Gen-ART review.
We took this chance to include in our revision also the comments received from 
Nick Buraglio just after the completion of the WGLC.

Best regards
Giuseppe & Paolo

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From: v6ops <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paolo Volpato
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To: Robert Sparks <[email protected]>; [email protected]
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Genart last call review of 
draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-deployment-07

Dear Robert,

Thanks for your comments.
Please find our reply inline as [GP].

Giuseppe & Paolo

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Sparks via Datatracker <[email protected]>
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Subject: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-deployment-07

Reviewer: Robert Sparks
Review result: Ready with Nits

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Document: draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-deployment-07
Reviewer: Robert Sparks
Review Date: 2022-09-24
IETF LC End Date: 2022-09-26
IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat

Summary: Mostly ready for publication as an Informational RFC, but with nits to 
address before publication.

I appreciate that this document represents a significant amount of discussion, 
and agree that obsoleting RFC6036 is the right thing to do.
[GP] Thanks.

However, it is unclear who this document is for. It doesn't feel like it's for 
people working on standardization or regulation, nor does it feel like a 
roadmap into other work or sources of information. Parts of it _begin_ to feel 
like it's intended to help people who are managing networks going through 
transition, but the language in those sections is not addressed to them. Is it 
primarily a guide to the narrative IPv6 evangelists could use when approaching 
other audiences?

I don't object to publishing this in its current form (but suggest addressing 
the below nits), but I really wonder if it would be more useful to reconsider 
the audience(s) and goals and write more explicitly to them.
[GP] The intended audience is the whole IETF community as well as delegates 
from carriers and enterprises who are interested to this kind of RFCs, so it 
may be quite wide. The goal of the draft is to make a picture of the deployment 
status of IPv6.
Said that, we acknowledge that yours is a valid point. We plan to make a few 
changes in the introduction to better specify both the target audience and the 
goal of the draft.

It's hard to tell what in this document is repetition of results from other 
sources, and what is new synthesis and analysis.
[GP] Through the draft we meant to summarize the results of many 
analysis/researches into a single document. This to provide an easily 
accessible document where to find all the aggregated statistics. On the other 
hand, according to the surveys we aimed to analyze the challenges that still 
remain in IPv6 adoption.

There is language that should be adjusted to reflect being published in 
archival series. Example: "This document intends to"

I recognize that this is a matter of style, but I find the use of phrases like 
"it may be interesting to", "it is worth mentioning", and similar to be 
distracting. Please consider removing the phrases - the point of the sentences 
will become stronger.
[GP] Thanks for your suggestions. We'll revise those sentences.

There are a few sentences that could be adjusted to make them easier for 
non-native english speakers to translate. Places like "Their actions cannot be 
objected, ". It would be good to scrub these before they get to the rfc-editor.
[GP] Ok, we'll check those sentences.

The document is acronym-heavy, and some acronyms are used so few times that 
expanding them on _every_ use is better than just on first use. Example: FBB.
[GP] Ok, fine.

It is uncomfortable to see "It is important to say that IPv6 is not more or 
less secure than IPv4". First - are you telling the readers that it is 
important for them to say this? Or stating that it's important for this 
document to say it? Second, the rest of the document doesn't support the 
statement. Instead, it almost directly contradicts it, by pointing to the 
relative maturity of implementations, the larger potential attack surface, etc.
Why is this sentence (at the beginning of 5.4.1) in the document? Could the 
statement simply be removed?
[GP] We'll revise this sentence to explain the concept better 

Has potential selection bias been considered in the analysis of the survey in 
appendix A? Perhaps it would be more accurate to title section 3.2 "IPv6 among 
Internet Service Providers in Europe"?
[GP] Sure

At "theoretical ratio", I suggest instead of using that phrase, you explain why 
you needed to say it. I suggest something like: "This is not a claim that each 
person uses this many addresses", or simply talking about the ratio without 
this disclaimer - the readers will already be familiar with the characteristics 
of per-capita metrics.
[GP] We will replace the phrase.

In 3.3, last sentence of the first paragraph - it's not clear that you actually 
state otherwise in the text that follows. If you do, stating otherwise needs to 
be done more clearly. If you don't, you don't need this sentence.
[GP] Right, we'll fix it.

Micro-nit in figure 3: Wolrdwide -> Worldwide [GP] We'll fix it as well


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