Document: draft-ietf-intarea-multicast-application-port Title: The Multicast Application Port Reviewer: Takahiro Nemoto Review result: Ready with Nits
I am the assigned ARTART reviewer for this draft. Summary: This document is concise, clear, and generally in good shape. The overall approach is clear: applications using the Multicast Application Port are distinguished by multicast group information for ASM, or by source/group information for SSM, rather than by unique UDP port assignments. I found no major or minor issues. I found one small clarification that the authors may wish to consider as a nit. Major issues: None. Minor issues: None. Nits: In Section 2, the document clearly states that applications using the Multicast Application Port are identified by the destination multicast address for ASM, or by the combination of source unicast address and destination multicast address for SSM. Given that definition, the text in Section 4 is understandable. However, the current sentence refers only to "the multicast address used by the application". For consistency with the SSM definition in Section 2, the authors may wish to make the SSM case explicit here as well. For example, the text could explicitly mention the source unicast address in the SSM case, consistent with the identification model introduced in Section 2. Similarly, Section 6 recommends that firewall rules referencing the Multicast Application Port SHOULD also consider the destination multicast address. For SSM, it may be slightly clearer to mention that the source unicast address is also part of the information used to identify the application, following the model already introduced in Section 2. This is not a major ambiguity, but echoing the Section 2 model in Sections 4 and 6 would make the document more internally consistent for implementers. _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
