Hi Suresh,

Good to hear that you will be clarifying the draft. I take it that showing
the full intended RS/RA message exchange will be part of that clarification.

Thanks,
Woj.

On 20 August 2010 01:06, Suresh Krishnan <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>  Thanks for the comments. I will submit a revised version tomorrow.
>
>
> On 10-08-19 12:26 PM, Brian Haberman wrote:
>
>> Suresh,
>>
>> On 8/19/10 9:43 AM, Suresh Krishnan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Woj,
>>>
>>> On 10-08-19 09:22 AM, Wojciech Dec wrote:
>>>
>>>> There seems to be reason to explain the context/workings more clearly,
>>>> both in terms of multicasting an RA and the overall expected BBF usage.
>>>>
>>> The draft describes how the sender of the RA deals with a tunneled RS
>>> with a LIO. No RS received, nothing in the draft is applicable.
>>> Multicasting an unsolicited RA is performed as per RFC4861/RFC4862. This
>>> is not something covered in the draft. I am not sure what you want me to
>>> explain here. As the editor of the BBF spec in question, I would have
>>> thought that you would be more qualified than me to explain the BBF
>>> usage.
>>>
>>
>> I think there is some misunderstanding going on here and I believe it
>> may have to do with the lack of detail (and maybe some typos) in the
>> draft.  It appears that sections 5 & 6 could be made more clear with a
>> few additions.
>>
>> First, it would be useful to expand all the acronyms in Figure 1 so that
>> there is a clear understanding what the roles are of all the nodes in
>> the diagram.  A *short* description of each node's role would be quite
>> useful.
>>
>
> Sounds good. Will do.
>
>
>
>> Second, it would be useful if the text in sections 5 & 6 referenced the
>> figure so that we know what nodes are originating which messages.  For
>> example, section 5.1 talks about receiving an RS from a subscriber, but
>> there is no node in the diagram labeled as the subscriber.  Which node
>> sends that RS?
>>
>
> I will modify the figure to show the host that sends the RS.
>
>
>
>> Finally, I found the section heading of 6.1 confusing.  It references a
>> subscriber, but the text only talks about the access node.  One can
>> infer how this works, but it would be better if it was clarified so that
>> we don't have differing views of what is going on.
>>
>
> OK.
>
> Thanks
> Suresh
>
>
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