Hi John, 

None of these are functional changes - just clarifying the OSPFv3 SR usage of 
the same IANA registry IS-IS SR. I don’t see why we can’t make these now or 
during AUTH48.  

> On Dec 14, 2022, at 4:59 PM, John Scudder <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Authors, WG,
> 
> As part of my review of draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-srv6-ext-12 I was looking at 
> these documents and came up with a few comments that would otherwise become 
> part of my AD review for ospfv3-srv6-extensions, so I thought I’d share them 
> now.
> 
> draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions-19 is currently in RFC-EDITOR state so it 
> may or may not be reasonable to make any changes, but I’m going to mention 
> them below anyway. I’m sorry I didn’t notice this before we got through IESG 
> review.
> 
> draft-ietf-lsr-ospfv3-srv6-extensions-08 Section 2 defines the flags field in 
> a way that (as per usual) conveniently happens to be identical to how the 
> IS-IS document defines it. However, I don’t see any language in 
> draft-ietf-lsr-ospfv3-srv6-extensions-08 saying that the IANA Registry from 
> the IS-IS draft MUST be used for the assignment of flags for the OSPFv3 
> field. Shouldn’t you say this? 
> 
> Also, the registry should probably refer back to both (all three, if we 
> include the BGP-LS one, but that's another story) specs that make assignments 
> from it, shouldn’t it? So where the IS-IS document says,
> 
> "This document requests a new IANA registry be created under the IS-IS TLV 
> Codepoints registry to control the assignment of bits 0 to 15 in the Flags 
> field of the ISIS SRv6 Capabilities sub-TLV specified in this document 
> (Section 2):"
> 
> Maybe it should add something like “… as well as the corresponding field 
> defined in Section 2 of draft-ietf-lsr-ospfv3-srv6-extensions-08.” (And maybe 
> “and Section 3.1 of draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-srv6-ext-12”?). It might be easier 
> to drop that change into the IS-IS draft now, before it exits RFC-EDITOR 
> state (if agreed of course) but we could also do it by patching the registry 
> text in the OSPFv3 (and BGP-LS?) draft’s IANA section.
> 
> Also, a minor point: draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions-19 uses inconsistent 
> hyphenation for the protocol name — “ISIS” or “IS-IS”. My own preference is 
> “IS-IS” as both more accurate and not as subject to conflation with other 
> uses of “Isis”, but anyway please pick one and stick with it? I guess the RFC 
> Editor will take care of this, but I apologize for not catching it during 
> IESG review

I would go further and say all these should be “IS-IS”. I have been making this 
comment consistently when I review documents. I’m not sure how I missed them in 
this document. 

Thanks,
Acee 

> 
> (This also leads me to wonder why we even put this registry, that’s shared by 
> two (three?) protocols, under the IS-IS TLV Codepoints registry instead of 
> under Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) Parameters, but given the publication 
> stage we’re at it may not be worth trying to change that.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> —John
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