Awesome, thank you very much.

W


On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM, Luigi Iannone <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks
>
> WriteUp submitted as well.
>
> L.
>
> On 25 Nov 2025, at 16:40, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
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> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM, Luigi Iannone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Warren,
> all good to me.
> Once you submit the new revision I’ll submit the shepherd writeup.
>
>
> Done.
>
> Here is the output from IDNITS along with explanations: https://
> author-tools.ietf.org/api/idnits?url=https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/
> draft-ietf-intarea-v4-via-v6-05.xml
>
>   https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info):
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>      No issues found here.
>
>   Checking nits according to https://www.ietf.org/id-info/1id-guidelines.txt:
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   == There are 4 instances of lines with non-ascii characters in the document.
>
>
> Yes. These are in proper names: T. Høiland-Jørgensen  and Éric Vyncke
>
>   Checking nits according to https://www.ietf.org/id-info/checklist :
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   == There are 6 instances of lines with non-RFC6890-compliant IPv4 addresses
>      in the document.  If these are example addresses, they should be changed.
>
>   == There are 6 instances of lines with private range IPv4 addresses in the
>      document.  If these are generic example addresses, they should be changed
>      to use any of the ranges defined in RFC 6890 (or successor): 192.0.2.x,
>      198.51.100.x or 203.0.113.x.
>
>   == There are 1 instance of lines with non-RFC3849-compliant IPv6 addresses
>      in the document.  If these are example addresses, they should be changed.
>
>
> Yup, these are all in the "Implementation Status ( This section to be
> removed before publication. )", except for 192.0.0.8 (which clearly should
> remain):
> "If a router does not have any IPv4 addresses assigned, the router MUST use
> the dummy address 192.0.0.8 as the source address of outgoing ICMP packets
> ([RFC7600], Section 4.8, Requirement R-22)."
>
>   Miscellaneous warnings:
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   -- Found something which looks like a code comment -- if you have code
>      sections in the document, please surround them with '<CODE BEGINS>' and
>      '<CODE ENDS>' lines.
>
>
> Yup, this is:
> "draft-ietf-intarea-v4-via-v6-04.txt(443): Possible code comment in
> line:   #      DST-ADDRESS       GATEWAY
> DISTANCE. "
> This is in the "Implementation Status ( This section to be removed before
> publication. )" section.
>
>   Checking references for intended status: Proposed Standard
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>      (See RFCs 3967 and 4897 for information about using normative references
>      to lower-maturity documents in RFCs)
>
>   ** Downref: Normative reference to an Experimental RFC: RFC 7600
>
> Yup. That is correct — RFC7600 - "IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - A
> Stateless Solution (4rd)" <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7600/>
>
> W
>
>
> Ciao
>
> L.
>
> On 24 Nov 2025, at 21:39, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM, Luigi Iannone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> P.S.
> You may consider as well to take care of the idnits: https://author-tools.
> ietf.org/api/idnits?url=https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/
> draft-ietf-intarea-v4-via-v6-04.txt
>
>
>
> Thank you — I have addressed most of these in the editor copy.
>
> The ones which I did not are related to:
>
> == There are 6 instances of lines with non-RFC6890-compliant IPv4 addresses
>      in the document.  If these are example addresses, they should be changed.
>
> I did not address these, as they are only in the "# Implementation Status
> ( This section to be removed before publication. )" section.
>
>
>
> L.
>
> On 21 Nov 2025, at 14:43, Luigi Iannone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Juliusz,
>
> Thanks for the update.
>
> On 20 Nov 2025, at 13:56, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I did read this document as part of my shepherding.
>
> Very well written and to the point. Thank you.
>
>
> Thanks, Luigi.
>
> I have a couple of nits that I put hereafter, marked with [LI].
>
>
> I've just published -04, which includes your changes except the following
> one:
>
>  Resolution may be recursive: the next-hop may itself be a prefix that
>  requires further resolution to map to the outgoing interface and L2
>  address.  V4-via-v6 routing does not prevent recursive resolution.
>
>
> [LI] Does this include any form of recursion or just v4 -> v6 -> v6 …..
> etc ?
> Can you clarify?
>
>
> Actually my point was about clearly stating that once you are in the ipv6
> domain you stay in ipv6.
> But at the end of the day since this document is about v4-via-v6 it should
> be ok the way it is stated now.
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Since we only define v4-via-v6, once you're in v6 land you stay there.  If
> we were to ever define v6-via-v4 (which I'm not advocating), then you
> could in principle alternate between the two domains, which would likely
> lead to an increase in nervous breakdowns among network administrators.
>
> I'm not too keen on expanding on this statement, since I have no
> operational experience with recursive v4-via-v6, and I'm afraid I'll say
> something wrong.  So please let me take the low-risk path of not saying
> anything more about recursion, at least until we get some operational
> experience with recursion together with v4-via-v6.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -- Juliusz
>
>
>
> The following comment in section 4 has not been addressed.
>
>
>  Routers implementing the mechanism described in this document do not
>  need to have any IPv4 addresses assigned to any of their interfaces,
>  and RFC 1812 does not specify what happens if no router-id has been
>
>
> [LI] Any reason why “RFC 1812” is not in brackets?
> Any reason not evident to me?
>
>
> Nope, just an oversight; thank you for catching it.
>
> W
>
>
> Thanks
>
> L.
>
>
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