Thanks Joel for the Gen-ART review and the suggestions.

We have posted a new revision that addresses your comments:

   -     https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-ippm-stamp-srpm-12.txt

Please see replies inline with <RG>....

On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:42 PM Joel Halpern via Datatracker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Reviewer: Joel Halpern
> Review result: Almost Ready
>
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> Document: draft-ietf-ippm-stamp-srpm-11
> Reviewer: Joel Halpern
> Review Date: 2023-05-08
> IETF LC End Date: 2023-05-17
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
>
> Summary: This document is almost ready for publication as a Proposed
> Standard.
>
> Major issues:
>     The document has six authors.  The shepherd writeup simply says "that
> is
>     what the authors want".  That does not seem sufficient justification.
>
>     The Structured SRv6 Segment List Sub-TLV in section 4.1.3 seems
>     problematic.  It complicates using the TLV to build the reply message,
> and
>     adds no value to the responding node.  The only node which could make
> sue
>     of this information is the control node which provided the
> information.  As
>     such, including it in the message does not seem helpful.  If it really
>     meets a need, a better explanation is required.
>

<RG> Removed this sub-TLV from the draft.


>
> Minor issues:
>     In my experience the practice of using the length of an address field
> to
>     distinguish IPv4 and IPv6 often leads to problems.  It would seem much
>     better to use two TLV type codes, one for IPv4 addresses and one for
> IPv6
>     addresses. (Section 3)  This also applies to the Return Address
> sub-tly in
>     section 4.1.2.
>

<RG> Separated them.


>
>     In the description in section 4.1.3 of the return segment list
> sub-tlv, the
>     text reads "An SR-MPLS Label Stack Sub-TLV may carry only Binding SID
> Label
>     [I-D.ietf-pce-binding-label-sid] or Path Segment Identifier of the
> Return
>     SR-MPLS Policy." and similar for SRv6 in the next paragraph.  This
> seems
>     ambiguous.  Clearly, the TLV can carry a set of label or SRv6 SIDs.
> If it
>     carries a binding SID, whose binding SID is it?  I presume it is a
> binding
>     SID known to the receiver, and provided to the sender via control
>     mechanisms?  How can the receiver tell the difference between a valid
> SID
>     in the LIST and a Path Segment Identifier?
>

<RG> Made the text changes to clarify.


>
>     It is unclear at the end of section 3, if a responder is sending a
> reply
>     with the U bit set to indicate that it received the STAMP request
>     apparently in error, should it still use the Destination Node Address
> (that
>     is not itself) as the source address?
>

<RG> Added a sentence to clarify

Thanks,
Rakesh



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