Dear Mike, thank you for getting back to me.

I suspected as much that the text was wordsmith'ed after a WG discussion.
Taking in account your preference of not using BCP 14 language in the
Intro, I am perfectly fine with the current text you have.

Thanks,

- vijay

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 1:04 PM Michael StJohns <[email protected]>
wrote:

> inline
>
> On 2/11/2026 13:42, Vijay Gurbani via Datatracker wrote:
> > Document: draft-ietf-lamps-macaddress-on
> > Title: Media Access Control (MAC) Addresses in X.509 Certificates
> > Reviewer: Vijay Gurbani
> > Review result: Ready with Nits
> >
> > I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area
> > Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed
> > by the IESG for the IETF Chair.  Please treat these comments just
> > like any other last call comments.
> >
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> >
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> >
> > Document: draft-ietf-lamps-macaddress-on-05
> > Reviewer: Vijay K. Gurbani
> > Review Date: 2026-02-11
> > IETF LC End Date: 2026-02-13
> > IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
> >
> > Summary: The I-D is ready to be published as a Standards Track document.
> >
> > Major issues: 0
> >
> > Minor issues: 0
> >
> > Nits/editorial comments: 1
> >
> > Nits:
> >
> > - Section 1 (S1), second paragraph: I suspect that the text here is put
> to
> >   discourage implementers from using the IAN extension.  Is there any
> specific
> >   reason why normative (SHOULD NOT) language is not used?
> >
> Hi Vijay -
>
> I think that was my restatement of a discussion we had.  If you wanted
> to use normative language  in this sentence then "Note that while this
> construct MAY..." is where I'd place it.  As this in the introduction, I
> believe (perhaps mistakenly) BCP14 language is generally not used in
> that section without great need.    The use of this was a "don't care"
> not a "we don't think you should use it".
>
> Mike
>
>
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