Hi Mahesh,

Thank you for your careful review and thoughtful feedback.

Your comments have been addressed in latest version.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lsr-l2-bundle-member-remote-id/10/
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url1=draft-ietf-lsr-l2-bundle-member-remote-id-09&url2=draft-ietf-lsr-l2-bundle-member-remote-id-10&difftype=--html

Pls check and let us know if there are any further comments.

Please see some replies inline with [Changwang].


Thanks,
Changwang


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Thanks to the authors for a short, focused extension. -09 is much tighter than 
-06, after it was reviewed by Gunter. I've tried not to repeat points already 
on the ballot.

Section 8, Operational Considerations:

480 >    Implementations MUST NOT enable the advertisement of the L2 Bundle
481 >    Member Interface Remote Identifier sub-TLV by default and MUST
482 >    provide a configuration option to enable its advertisement on
483 >    specific links.

This copies the first sentence of RFC 9356 Section 5 but drops the second, 
which points to the OSPF YANG model (RFC 9129) and says the needed 
configuration and operational elements are expected to come as an augmentation. 
That pointer belongs here too, and arguably matters more. Section 7 now leaves 
configuration as the only deterministic way to get the remote identifier. The 
document therefore introduces a per-link enable knob, possibly per-member 
remote-identifier configuration, and validation state that an operator will 
want to read.
I'd ask the authors to say how these are expected to be modeled (RFC
9129 for OSPF, RFC 9130 for IS-IS), even if the augmentation lives in a 
separate document.

The authors might also look at draft-ietf-opsawg-rfc5706bis while they're in 
this section. With manual configuration, a few practical questions come up. 
What happens to configured remote identifiers when the neighbor reboots and 
reassigns its local identifiers? How are mismatches reported? How does an 
operator tell "not configured" apart from "configured but wrong"? A few 
sentences on each would help deployers.

[Changwang] OK. In the Operational Considerations section, add YANG modeling 
guidance and describe how to address the three operational issues associated 
with manual configuration.

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Section 3, illustrative text vs. Section 3.2 MUST:

172 >    The descriptions in this section are intended to be illustrative and
173 >    are not meant to be normative.

207 >    advertised as follows.  Note that IS-IS can advertise a set of
208 >    members in a single L2 Bundle Attribute Descriptor, so the L2 Bundle
209 >    Member Interface Remote Identifier sub-TLV MUST carry multiple remote
210 >    interface identifiers, one for each bundle member advertised in the
211 >    associated L2 Bundle Member Descriptor.

Section 3 says it's illustrative, then Section 3.2 has a MUST. The same 
requirement is already stated normatively in Section 5 (line 319). I would drop 
the BCP 14 keyword here. Also, line 211 should say "L2 Bundle Attribute 
Descriptor", not "L2 Bundle Member Descriptor". A Member Descriptor is a single 
4-octet identifier.

[Changwang] OK. Remove “MUST” and replace “L2 Bundle Member Descriptor” with 
“L2 Bundle Attribute Descriptor”.
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Section 5, relationship to RFC 8668 shared-attribute rules:

336 >    The L2 Bundle Member Interface Remote Identifier sub-TLV MUST NOT
337 >    appear more than once within the sub-TLV set of a single L2 Bundle
338 >    Attribute Descriptor.  If multiple instances of this sub-TLV are
339 >    received within the same L2 Bundle Attribute Descriptor (e.g., during
340 >    transient conditions), implementations MUST use the first occurrence
341 >    in the lowest numbered Link State Protocol Data Unit (LSP) fragment
342 >    and ignore subsequent occurrences.

RFC 8668 Section 3.2 says every sub-TLV in the neighbor registry is a "shared 
attribute" sub-TLV unless specified otherwise, and that if multiple copies of a 
shared sub-TLV appear, all copies MUST be ignored.
The new sub-TLV is clearly per-member, like the L2 Bundle Member Adj-SID 
sub-TLVs in RFC 8668 Section 4. The IANA request in Section 10 marks the TLV 25 
column as "y" rather than "y(s)", which, per the registry note, means the 
sub-TLV may appear in TLV 25 but is not shared across members. Even so, the 
body text should say explicitly that this is not a shared-attribute sub-TLV. 
That tells the reader why the "use the first" rule here differs from RFC 8668's 
"ignore all" rule.

I also don't follow the "lowest numbered LSP fragment" wording. An L2 Bundle 
Attribute Descriptor sits inside a single TLV 25, which sits in a single 
fragment, so duplicates within one descriptor are always in the same fragment. 
Is there a cross-fragment case the authors have in mind, such as the same 
member appearing in descriptors in different TLV 25 instances? If so, that case 
deserves its own rule. If not, the fragment clause can go.

[Changwang] In the IS-IS extensions, add text clarifying that the new sub-TLV 
is not a shared-attribute sub-TLV. Leave the wording regarding “lowest numbered 
LSP” unchanged.

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Section 6, BGP-LS error handling:

419 >    With respect to the roles defined in Section 3 of [RFC9552], a BGP-LS
420 >    Producer originates this sub-TLV as part of the BGP-LS Attribute of
421 >    the Link NLRI describing the parent L3 link, following the mapping
422 >    described above.  A BGP-LS Propagator does not perform semantic
423 >    validation of this sub-TLV and does not remove it due to semantic or
424 >    syntactic length mismatches beyond the 'Attribute Discard' fault
425 >    handling defined in Section 8.2.2 of [RFC9552].

I read this several times and I'm still not sure what lines 423-425 are saying. 
Unlike Section 4, Section 6 never states that Length must be 4 or what happens 
when it isn't. Under RFC 9552 Section 8.2.2, a speaker that recognizes this 
sub-TLV and finds an invalid length treats the whole BGP-LS Attribute as 
malformed and applies 'Attribute Discard'.
That drops every TLV in the attribute, not just this one. I would state that 
consequence plainly. This also supports Med's point that RFC 9552 needs to be a 
normative reference.

[Changwang] OK. Revise this paragraph to clearly state that if the sub-TLV’s 
length is invalid, all TLVs in the BGP-LS Attribute are discarded immediately.
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Section 9, normative behavior in Security Considerations:

511 >    misdiagnose the scope of a failure.  To limit the impact of stale
512 >    information, an originator MUST NOT continue to advertise a remote
513 >    identifier that it knows to be no longer valid.

This is a protocol requirement, so it belongs in Section 7. "Knows" is also 
doing a lot of work here. With configured values, the originator generally has 
no signal that the value has gone stale, unless it runs the reciprocity check 
described above. Tying this requirement to that check would make it actionable.

[Changwang] The relevant protocol text has been added to Section 8 (Operational 
Considerations). The only change to this sentence in Section 9 (Security 
Considerations) is to tie “knows” to the validation mechanism described in 
Section 7.
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Section 12.1, normative references:

489 >    considerations of [RFC8668], [RFC9356], [RFC9552], [RFC9085] and
490 >    [RFC9086] are applicable to this document.  In addition, the

RFC 9086 (BGP-LS EPE) is now cited only here. It looks like a leftover from the 
"Peer Adj Link" text that was removed after Gunter's review.
Nothing in -09 uses EPE, so I would drop it. Similarly, IEEE 802.1AX is listed 
as normative, but -09 uses it only as an example of a bundle technology and of 
a possible discovery aid, with acquisition out of scope. Informative seems 
right, consistent with how IEEE 802.1AB is treated.

[Changwang] Accepted. Remove the reference to RFC 9086 and move IEEE 802.1AX to 
the Informative References section.


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NIT
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All comments below are about very minor potential issues that you may choose to 
address in some way - or ignore - as you see fit. Some were flagged by 
automated tools (via https://github.com/larseggert/ietf-reviewtool), so there 
will likely be some false positives. There is no need to let me know what you 
did with these suggestions.

Abstract:

20 >    bundle members for traffic engineering (TE) purposes.  This document
21 >    describes how Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System
22 >    to Intermediate System (IS-IS) would advertise the remote interface

s/would advertise/advertise/

[Changwang] Accepted.
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Section 2, Use Case:

141 >    ends.  So, there would be requirements for the controller to figure
142 >    out the connectivity relationships between bundle members.

s/So, there would be requirements for the controller to figure out/The 
controller therefore needs to determine/

[Changwang] Accepted.
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Section 3.2, IS-IS figure:

218 >        L2 Bundle Member Link Local Identifiers of Member #1,#2,...,#n
219 >        sub-TLV(s)

As laid out, this reads as if the link local identifiers are sub-TLVs.
Putting "Sub-TLV(s)" on its own line would avoid that.

[Changwang] Accepted.
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Sections 4, 5, 6 and 10, code points:

260 >    |          Type (TBA)           |           Length (4)          |

Michael Richardson suggested distinct placeholders during the RTGDIR review, 
and Les and Tom Petch agreed on the list. That change hasn't landed yet. Using 
TBA1 through TBA4 in both the bodies and Section 10 would make IANA's job 
unambiguous.

[Changwang] Each TBA is associated with a different registry, so there is no 
need to label them TBA1 through TBA4.
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Section 10, OSPFv3 registry:

562 >    This document adds the following new sub-TLV to the "OSPFv3 Extended-
563 >    LSA Sub-TLVs" registry.  In this registry, the "L2BM" column has an
564 >    additional value "X", which indicates that a sub-TLV is not a sub-TLV
565 >    of the Router-Link TLV and MUST NOT appear within the L2 Bundle
566 >    Member Attributes sub-TLV.

The explanation of "X" isn't needed, since the value requested is "Y".

[Changwang] Accepted.
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Section 11, Acknowledgements:

s/Gunter van de Velde/Gunter Van de Velde/ s/Secdir review/SECDIR review/

[Changwang] Accepted.



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