Hi Les,

Please see inline.

> On 14. May 2019, at 18:12, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Mirja -
> 
> Thanx for the review.
> Responses inline.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mirja Kühlewind via Datatracker <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 4:58 AM
>> To: The IESG <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]; Christian Hopps
>> <[email protected]>; Uma Chunduri <[email protected]>;
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>> Subject: Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-
>> extensions-24: (with COMMENT)
>> 
>> Mirja Kühlewind has entered the following ballot position for
>> draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-extensions-24: No Objection
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>> COMMENT:
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>> 
>> A few comments/questions:
>> 
>> 1) For both the Prefix Segment Identifier and the Adjacency Segment
>> Identifier
>> sub-TLV it is not fully clear to me what the value field is used for when the
>> V-Flag is set. Can you further elaborate this in the draft or provide a
>> respective pointer?
>> 
> [Les:] 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-extensions-24#section-2.1.1.1
>  defines this.

I was assuming that it is defined somewhere. Maybe putting a ref in the doc 
that points at this draft could be good.
> 
>> 2) The F-Flag in Adjacency Segment Identifier sub-TLV and SID/Label Binding
>> TLV
>> is only one bit. I'm not expecting a new version of IP any time soon,
>> however,
>> maybe completely different address families could be useful as well. Not
>> sure
>> if only 1 bit is future-proof...?
>> 
> [Les:] This is a very forward looking comment. :-)
> 
> Seriously, if a new version of IP is invented there will be a LOT of protocol 
> work required to support it. It is also not a given that MPLS would be 
> supported for such a new IP version - so it isn't at all a given that these 
> extensions (however modified) would apply.

I’m actually not sure because many protocols that need to cover IPv4 and IPv6 
have already a longer field (or alternative would need a new extension for any 
new protocol anyway)…

> Also, changing the encoding now would be problematic for existing deployments 
> (of which there are many) and I think we would have a hard time defining what 
> an extensible encoding would be.

I was assuming this answer already, so…
> 
> I like to think we can deal with this when the time comes.
> Sound OK?

… I guess it’s fine.

> 
>> 3) Would it make sense to also discuss any risk of leaking information (e.g.
>> about the network topology) in the security consideration section?
>> 
> 
> [Les:] Prefix leaking is an established practice in IS-IS dating back to RFC 
> 1195,  extended by RFC 5302, and not modified by this document.
> Note that the Security section already discusses the advertisement of 
> information used to program the MPLS forwarding plane - which covers the 
> additional sub-TLV information which would accompany leaked prefixes.

Adding a few sentences and pointers to the RFC you just listed could still be 
good!

Mirja


> 
>    Les
> 

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