On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:26 PM 7/24/13, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> At Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:19:15 +0200,
> Ralph Droms <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> I have a couple of comments on the draft:
>>> 
>>> - I think the draft explains the motivation of introducing the new
> 
> (I meant "the draft should explain...")
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> I see you want to keep the scope document not too specific.  But in
> its current form, the concept of "network specific" is too vague and
> I'm afraid it's reader-unfriendly (in fact I couldn't understand the
> idea just from this draft and ended up digging into the ML archive).
> I don't think it too restrictive if we show one specific example of
> the intended usage with a note that reads "but the use of this scope
> is not limited to this case; in terms of the scope definition it can
> be used for any other usage as long as it meets other architectural
> constraints".
> 
> But I wouldn't strongly argue for that.  It's just a suggestion.

Sounds like a good suggestion to me.  I have no objection to adding such text, 
if there is WG consensus for the change...

- Ralph

> 
> --
> JINMEI, Tatuya

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