Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for the super quick reply! I marked your approval on the AUTH48 status 
page for this document (see https://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9739).

Once we receive approval from Gunter, we can move this document forward.

Thank you,
RFC Editor/rv



> On Feb 27, 2025, at 2:23 PM, Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <zzh...@juniper.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> I approve the changes.
> 
> Thanks!
> Jeffrey
> 
> 
> Juniper Business Use Only
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> Hello authors and Gunter*,
> 
> Authors - We updated the files per the recent discussion and also updated 
> Jeffrey’s email address. Please review and let us know any concerns.
> 
> We still need Jeffrey’s approval; we have received approval from all other 
> authors. Jeffrey, let us know if you approve the document in its current form.
> 
> *Gunter, as AD, please review and approve the following changes, which are 
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> - Deletion of "adjacent Layer 3” in second paragraph of Section 3 (author 
> comment: We should remove the "adjacent layer 3" wording from the above. The 
> very use case that led to this document involves routers *indirectly* 
> connected by a BIER domain (which are composed of layer 3 routers) - we want 
> to signal PIM states among non-adjacent routers over this PLI.)
> - Changes in Section 3.2.1, including removal of [IANA-PIM-Attr-Types] (if 
> needed, see author emails on 24 February)
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> 
>> On Feb 26, 2025, at 8:43 AM, Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia) 
>> <hooman.bidg...@nokia.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Rebecca
>> 
>> Just to close the loop can you please update as per below and then I
>> think the thread is closed
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Hooman
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia)
>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 10:49 AM
>> To: Stig Venaas (svenaas) ; Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang ; Rebecca
>> VanRheenen ; Gunter van de Velde (Nokia) ; Mankamana Mishra (mankamis)
>> ; s...@cisco.com; zzh...@juniper.com; michael.mcbr...@futurewei.com
>> Cc: pim-...@ietf.org; RFC Editor ; pim-cha...@ietf.org;
>> ext-zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn ; auth48archive@rfc-editor.org
>> Subject: RE: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9739 for your review
>> 
>> I am good with this thanks Jeffery/Stig!
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stig Venaas (svenaas)
>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 10:42 AM
>> To: Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia) ; Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang ; Rebecca
>> VanRheenen ; Gunter van de Velde (Nokia) ; Mankamana Mishra (mankamis)
>> ; s...@cisco.com; zzh...@juniper.com; michael.mcbr...@futurewei.com
>> Cc: pim-...@ietf.org; RFC Editor ; pim-cha...@ietf.org;
>> ext-zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn ; auth48archive@rfc-editor.org
>> Subject: RE: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9739 for your review
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> Thanks Jeffrey for good comments.
>> 
>> We want to be able to use join attributes with PLI in some cases, in 
>> particular for BIER we have specified a BIER specific join-attribute that we 
>> really want to use!
>> 
>> However, we cannot rely on pim hellos to know whether neighbor supports join 
>> attributes or which attributes it supports, hence it must be by 
>> configuration. I think the pim over BIER draft can specify that all pim over 
>> BIER implementations need to support the one join attribute in that draft 
>> though, so that does not have to be configured. This is covered by the last 
>> bullet in 3.2.1.
>> 
>> I think we need to replace "process" with "use"/"send", replacing OLD:
>> 
>>  Since a PLI does not process PIM Hello messages, it also does not
>>  support the Join Attribute option in PIM Hello as specified in
>>  [RFC5384].  As such, PIM Light is unaware of its neighbor's
>>  capability to process Join Attributes and SHOULD NOT process a Join
>>  message containing a Join Attribute.
>> 
>> With NEW:
>> 
>>  Since PLI does not use PIM Hello messages, it also does not
>>  support the Join Attribute option in PIM Hello as specified in
>>  [RFC5384].  As such, PIM Light is unaware of its neighbor's
>>  capability to process Join Attributes and SHOULD NOT send a Join
>>  message containing a Join Attribute.
>> 
>> I'm fine replacing OLD:
>> 
>> The Join Attribute must be configured with an appropriate Join Attribute 
>> type that the PLI is capable of processing as per the "PIM Join Attribute 
>> Types" registry [IANA-PIM-Attr-Types].
>> 
>> With NEW:
>> The neighbors on the PLI are known via configuration to be capable of 
>> processing the attribute.
>> 
>> We still have the second bullet that allows it for specific PLI use-cases if 
>> defined in draft/RFC.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Stig
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia)
>>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 6:57 AM
>>> To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang ; Rebecca VanRheenen ; Gunter van de
>>> Velde
>>> (Nokia) ; Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) ; Stig Venaas (svenaas) ;
>>> s...@cisco.com; zzh...@juniper.com; michael.mcbr...@futurewei.com
>>> Cc: pim-...@ietf.org; RFC Editor ; pim-cha...@ietf.org; EXT-
>>> zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn ; auth48archive@rfc-editor.org
>>> Subject: RE: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9739 for your review
>>> Importance: High
>>> 
>>> I let Stig comment
>>> 
>>> but the just of it is, since PLI does not support PIM Hello then
>>> natively it can't process join attribute unless it is configured
>>> explicitly or the application forces a specific join attribute type for the 
>>> PLI which both end understand.
>>> 
>>> I don't care how we want to say this as long as the idea is
>>> communicated in some way.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Hooman
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang
>>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 9:38 AM
>>> To: Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia) ; Rebecca VanRheenen ; Gunter van de Velde
>>> (Nokia) ; Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) ; Stig Venaas (svenaas) ;
>>> s...@cisco.com; zzh...@juniper.com; michael.mcbr...@futurewei.com
>>> Cc: pim-...@ietf.org; RFC Editor ; pim-cha...@ietf.org; EXT-
>>> zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn ; auth48archive@rfc-editor.org
>>> Subject: RE: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9739 for your review
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> Please see zzh3> below.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Juniper Business Use Only
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia)
>>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 9:07 AM
>>> To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang ; Rebecca VanRheenen ; Gunter van de
>>> Velde
>>> (Nokia) ; Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) ; Stig Venaas (svenaas) ;
>>> s...@cisco.com; zzh...@juniper.com; michael.mcbr...@futurewei.com
>>> Cc: pim-...@ietf.org; RFC Editor ; pim-cha...@ietf.org; EXT-
>>> zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn ; auth48archive@rfc-editor.org
>>> Subject: RE: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9739 for your review
>>> 
>>> [External Email. Be cautious of content]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> HI Jeffrey
>>> 
>>> 1. on the hello, PLI should not send it, but if it receives it then
>>> what? It should drop it correct? Doesn't that mean that PLI should not 
>>> process a PIM hello?
>>> We need a text that describes the behavior when PLI gets a Hello.
>>> 
>>> Zzh3> The context there is NOT ABOUT HELLO handling, but about the
>>> handling of join message with Join attributes. My suggestion is about
>>> the text for join messages with join attributes.
>>> Zzh3> If we want to *add* text about hello messages, that's a
>>> Zzh3> separate
>>> paragraph.
>>> 
>>> 2. on join attribute we are both saying the same thing I think. PLI
>>> should not send a join attribute but if it receives it then what?
>>> Will the PLI accept the Join <S,G> and not process the join attribute
>>> or do we drop the entire join message?
>>> 
>>> Zzh3> With the principle of "be conservative when sending and liberal
>>> Zzh3> when
>>> receiving", I think we can process the join attribute and the message.
>>> 
>>>       a.      in addition if a specific join attribute is configure against 
>>> PLI or the
>>> application using PLI is known to support a specific join attribute
>>> type then the PLI should process the attribute. Do we agree?
>>> 
>>> Zzh3> Agree - just that I believe my suggested text is better (either
>>> Zzh3> the original
>>> version "via means outside the scope of this document" or the new
>>> version ("via configuration").
>>> Zzh3> If we agree that we can always process the received join
>>> Zzh3> attributes, then
>>> my original suggestions should be taken (except that "via means
>>> outside the scope of this document" can be replaced by "via configuration").
>>> Zzh3> Jeffrey
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Hooman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Juniper Business Use Only
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang
>>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 8:50 AM
>>> To: Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia) ; Rebecca VanRheenen ; Gunter van de Velde
>>> (Nokia) ; Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) ; Stig Venaas (svenaas) ;
>>> s...@cisco.com; zzh...@juniper.com; michael.mcbr...@futurewei.com
>>> Cc: pim-...@ietf.org; RFC Editor ; pim-cha...@ietf.org; EXT-
>>> zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn ; auth48archive@rfc-editor.org
>>> Subject: RE: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9739 for your review
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Hooman, Stig,
>>> 
>>> Please see zzh2> below.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Juniper Business Use Only
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia) <hooman.bidg...@nokia.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 4:35 AM
>>> To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <zzh...@juniper.net>; Rebecca VanRheenen
>>> <rvanrhee...@staff.rfc-editor.org>; Gunter van de Velde (Nokia)
>>> <gunter.van_de_ve...@nokia.com>; Mankamana Mishra (mankamis)
>>> <manka...@cisco.com>; Stig Venaas (svenaas) <sven...@cisco.com>;
>>> s...@cisco.com; zzh...@juniper.com; michael.mcbr...@futurewei.com
>>> Cc: pim-...@ietf.org; RFC Editor <rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org>; pim-
>>> cha...@ietf.org; ext-zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn <zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn>;
>>> auth48archive@rfc-editor.org
>>> Subject: RE: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9739 <draft-ietf-pim-light-11>
>>> for your review
>>> 
>>> [External Email. Be cautious of content]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Jeffrey et al
>>> 
>>> Jeffrey thanks for input, I have some minor comments Jeffrey, could
>>> you please read inline @Stig Venaas (svenaas) what do you think about
>>> the comments please.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Hooman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Juniper Business Use Only
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <zzh...@juniper.net>
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 10:44 PM
>>> To: Rebecca VanRheenen <rvanrhee...@staff.rfc-editor.org>; Gunter van
>>> de Velde (Nokia) <gunter.van_de_ve...@nokia.com>; Mankamana Mishra
>>> (mankamis) <manka...@cisco.com>; Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia)
>>> <hooman.bidg...@nokia.com>; Stig Venaas (svenaas)
>>> <sven...@cisco.com>; s...@cisco.com; zzh...@juniper.com;
>>> michael.mcbr...@futurewei.com
>>> Cc: pim-...@ietf.org; RFC Editor <rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org>; pim-
>>> cha...@ietf.org; ext-zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn <zhang.zh...@zte.com.cn>;
>>> auth48archive@rfc-editor.org
>>> Subject: RE: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9739 <draft-ietf-pim-light-11>
>>> for your review
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> I somehow cannot find any traces of this email thread in my Outlook
>>> hence the late response. Thanks to Gunter for forwarding me this email.
>>> 
>>> A few nits:
>>> 
>>>  In certain scenarios, it is desirable to establish multicast states
>>>  between two adjacent Layer 3 routers without forming a PIM
>>>  neighborship.
>>> 
>>> We should remove the "adjacent layer 3" wording from the above. The
>>> very use case that led to this document involves routers *indirectly*
>>> connected by a BIER domain (which are composed of layer 3 routers) -
>>> we want to signal PIM states among non-adjacent routers over this PLI.
>>> 
>>> HB> Ok, so lets go with
>>>  In certain scenarios, it is desirable to establish multicast states
>>>  between two routers without forming a PIM neighborship.
>>> 
>>> For the following:
>>> 
>>>  Since a PLI does not process PIM Hello messages, it also does not
>>>  support the Join Attribute option in PIM Hello as specified in
>>>  [RFC5384].  As such, PIM Light is unaware of its neighbor's
>>>  capability to process Join Attributes and SHOULD NOT process a Join
>>>  message containing a Join Attribute.
>>> 
>>> "process" is more on the receiving side. I think we're only talking
>>> about "sending" here, so should change the second "process" to "send".
>>> 
>>> HB> I think this is send and process Jeffrey, lets say if PLI gets a
>>> HB> hello message it should not process it and perhaps raise a log
>>> HB> correct? I agree with sending. I just want to make sure the
>>> HB> reader understands that PLI doesn't process Hellos. How about
>>>  "Since a PLI does not 'support' PIM Hello messages, it also does not
>>>  support the Join Attribute option in PIM Hello as specified in
>>>  [RFC5384].  As such, PIM Light is unaware of its neighbor's
>>>  capability to process Join Attributes and SHOULD NOT process a Join
>>>  message containing a Join Attribute."
>>> 
>>> zzh2> It's not about "process a hello message" that is received. The
>>> zzh2> context is
>>> that is you don't know the capability of the receivers (due to lack
>>> of
>>> hello) so you should not *send join* messages with Join Attributes.
>>> Zzh2> If the intention is that one should even not process a received
>>> Zzh2> join
>>> message with the join attribute, then the text should be:
>>> 
>>>  Since a PLI does not use PIM Hello messages, which contains
>>>  the Join Attribute option in PIM Hello as specified in
>>>  [RFC5384], PIM Light is unaware of its neighbor's
>>>  capability to process Join Attributes and SHOULD NOT *send and
>>> process* a Join
>>>  message containing a Join Attribute.
>>> 
>>> zzh2> I think that is clearer (the key change is *send and process*
>>> zzh2> which would
>>> match the following). But if it is ok to process received the join
>>> messages with join attributes, then my two original suggestions are better.
>>> 
>>>  There are two cases in which a PLI can send and process a Join
>>>  Attribute:
>>> 
>>> Remove "and process"?
>>> 
>>> HB> how about
>>>  "For a PLI to support Join Attributes there can be two cases:"
>>> 
>>> HB> @Stig Venaas (svenaas) what do you think?
>>> 
>>>  *  The Join Attribute must be configured with an appropriate Join
>>>     Attribute type that the PLI is capable of processing as per the
>>>     "PIM Join Attribute Types" registry [IANA-PIM-Attr-Types].
>>> 
>>> The above bullet does not read well. Perhaps change it to the following?
>>> 
>>>  *  The neighbors on the PLI are known, by means outside of the scope
>>>      of this document, to be capable of processing the attribute.
>>> 
>>> HB> I don't think we need change this as this is needed to stress
>>> HB> that join Attribute option is supported when it is configured 
>>> explicitly.
>>> HB> We can change it to the following for better read
>>> "The Join Attribute type as per "PIM Join Attribute Types" registry
>>> [IANA-PIM- Attr-Types] must be explicitly configured against the PLI
>>> to enable the support of Join Attribute for PIM Light."
>>> 
>>> Zzh2> Neither the original text and your new text above does not read
>>> Zzh2> well. I
>>> know what you mean - the routers need to know that the join attribute
>>> is supported and that can be achieved via configuration. My suggested
>>> text simply says as long as it is known to be supported it is fine.
>>> If we want to limit it to configuration, the following is better:
>>> 
>>>  *  The neighbors on the PLI are known via configuration to be
>>> capable of processing the attribute.
>>> 
>>> Zzh2> Thanks.
>>> Zzh2> Jeffrey
> 

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