Document: draft-ietf-cats-framework
Title: A Framework for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)
Reviewer: Thomas Fossati
Review result: Ready

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Document: draft-ietf-cats-framework-??
Reviewer: Thomas Fossati
Review Date: 2026-02-23
IETF LC End Date: 2026-03-03
IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat

Summary: This document is ready for publication as an Informational RFC.

It clearly describes the CATS functional components, their interaction and
high-level workflows.

The terminology section is extensive and clear.

The security and privacy considerations are also well written and to the point.

The diagrams are very nice and really help the reader grasp and connect the
concepts. (I have a few suggestions on how to improve them further, but I could
not easily find the repository that hosts the document, so I could not provide
the suggestions in the form of a PR.)

Major issues: none

Minor issues: none

Nits/editorial comments: a few, see below.

§1

slight reflow:

OLD
The CATS framework is an overlay framework for the selection of the suitable
service contact instances from a set of candidates.

NEW
The CATS framework is an overlay framework that selects suitable service
contact instances from a set of candidates.

typo:

OLD
[...] combination of networking and computing metrics determine

NEW
[...] combination of networking and computing metrics determines

§2

s/decision making/decision-making/
s/as distinct from/as opposed to/

§3.1

s/other than they are reachable/other than that they are reachable/

§3.2

slight reflow:

OLD
This document does not make any assumption about the structure and semantic of
this identifier. An example of such ID is a unicast IP address that uniquely
identifies the location of a service instance.

NEW
This document makes no assumptions about the structure or semantics of this
identifier. One example of such an ID is a unicast IP address, which uniquely
identifies the location of a service instance.

s/deployment specific/deployment-specific/

§3.4.1

s/that run in same/that run in the same/

§3.4.6

s/computing related/computing-related/

§4.3

s/in order to not constrain/so as not to constrain/
s/will be removed and/will be removed, and/

§4.4
s/the flow or packets identification type/the flow or packet identification
type/

§5.1

s/Such correlation/Such a correlation/
or
s/Such a correlation/This correlation/

§5.2

s/Retrieve active classification table/Retrieve the active classification table/

§5.4

s/this document suggests to implement the normalization function/this document
suggests implementing the normalization function/

§6

s/may be modified by an attacker resulting in disrupted service delivery/may be
modified by an attacker, resulting in disrupted service delivery

§7

s/at the application/protocol level depending/at the application/protocol
level, depending/



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