Christian, I'm not sure that the word "apply" is quite right, but otherwise I agree with you; we can be more explicit.
Regards Brian On 31/03/2013 20:31, Christian Huitema wrote: > The draft would be a bit easier to read if it announced its purpose > immediately, both in the abstract and in the introduction. For example, in > the abstract, instead of just stating: > > This document clarifies > the status of those bits for interface identifiers that are not > derived from an IEEE link-layer address, and updates RFC 4291 > accordingly. > > You could have written: > > This document clarifies > that these bits only apply to interface identifiers that are explicitly > derived from an IEEE link-layer address, and updates RFC 4291 > accordingly. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 8:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ug-00.txt > > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. > > Title : The U and G bits in IPv6 Interface Identifiers > Author(s) : Brian Carpenter > Sheng Jiang > Filename : draft-ietf-6man-ug-00.txt > Pages : 9 > Date : 2013-03-29 > > Abstract: > The IPv6 addressing architecture defines a method by which the > Universal and Group bits of an IEEE link-layer address are mapped > into an IPv6 unicast interface identifier. This document clarifies > the status of those bits for interface identifiers that are not > derived from an IEEE link-layer address, and updates RFC 4291 > accordingly. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-ug > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-ug-00 > > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
