Jinmei-san - thanks for your review...

On Jul 24, 2013, at 2:21 AM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a couple of comments on the draft:
> 
> - I think the draft explains the motivation of introducing the new
>  scope.  It will also help understand the vague term of the
>  "Network-Specific" scope, or "defined automatically from the network
>  topology".  I've checked the ML archive and understood it's related
>  to http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast-04
>  But I suspect it's quite difficult to figure it out just from the
>  generic description of the draft.

The lack of direct connection between draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast and this 
document is intentional.  The purpose of the definition of Network-Specific 
scope is to allow the use of that scope by draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast, as 
well as other use cases.

> - You might want to explicitly note that this new scope is smaller
>  than the Admin (or Site or Organization) -Local scope and that if
>  the administrator configures an Admin/Site/Organization-Local scope
>  zone for a network, that zone must not be separated by a
>  Network-Specific scope zone per the scoped address architecture (RFC
>  4007).  This restriction is not specific to this particular
>  relationship, but since the Network-Specific scope (seems) dynamic
>  and self defined while Admin/Site/Organization-Local scopes are
>  always defined manually, I guess it'll be more likely to cause
>  accidental violation.

Agreed.  I'll add some explanatory text to the next rev.

- Ralph

> 
> --
> JINMEI, Tatuya
> Infoblox Inc.
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