Hi Gunter and authors,

We have now received all necessary approvals and consider AUTH48 complete:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9739

Thank you for your attention and guidance during the AUTH48 process. We will 
move this document forward in the publication process at this time.

Best regards,
RFC Editor/rv



> On Mar 3, 2025, at 3:22 AM, Gunter van de Velde (Nokia) 
> <gunter.van_de_ve...@nokia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> Please find my approval.
> Thank you. I looked at the changes in the diff file..
> 
> Kind Regards,
> G/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebecca VanRheenen <rvanrhee...@staff.rfc-editor.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2025 11:27 PM
> To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <zzh...@juniper.net>; Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia) 
> <hooman.bidg...@nokia.com>; Stig Venaas (svenaas) <sven...@cisco.com>; Gunter 
> van de Velde (Nokia) <gunter.van_de_ve...@nokia.com>; Mankamana Mishra 
> (mankamis) <manka...@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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> 
> 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
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rebecca VanRheenen <rvanrhee...@staff.rfc-editor.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2025 5:17 PM
>> To: Hooman Bidgoli (Nokia) <hooman.bidg...@nokia.com>; Stig Venaas
>> (svenaas) <sven...@cisco.com>; Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang
>> <zzh...@juniper.net>; Gunter van de Velde (Nokia)
>> <gunter.van_de_ve...@nokia.com>; Mankamana Mishra (mankamis)
>> <manka...@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]
>> 
>> 
>> 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 
>> “above editorial”. These are best viewed in this diff file: 
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>> 
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>> (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)
>> - Change to second sentence in Section 3.3 (if needed, see author
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>> RFC Editor/rv
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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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> CAUTION: This is an external email. Please be very careful when clicking 
>>> links or opening attachments. See the URL nok.it/ext for additional 
>>> information.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> CAUTION: This is an external email. Please be very careful when
>>>> clicking links or opening attachments. See the URL nok.it/ext for 
>>>> additional information.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> Zzh3> liberal 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
>>>> Zzh3> (either 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) ;
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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>
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>>>> 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
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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
>>>> Zzh2> received 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
>>>> Zzh2> read 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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