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Document: draft-ietf-softwire-unified-cpe-04
Reviewer: Paul Kyzivat
Review Date:
IETF LC End Date: 2016-08-25
IESG Telechat date: ?

Summary:

This draft is on the right track but has open issues, described in the review.

Issues:

Major: 0
Minor: 2
Nits:  1

(1) MINOR: Section 1.2:

This defines the "S46 Priority Option". On first reading I didn't realize that this was intended to be a DHCPv6 option. On rereading, I found "This document describes a DHCPv6 based prioritisation method", which in retrospect does specify this.

I suggest a few changes to make this clearer to a first-time reader:

a) Mention it clearly in the abstract:

   ... this memo specifies a DHCPv6 option whereby ...

b) Change heading of section 1.2 to "S46 Priority DHCPv6 Option"

c) Change heading of section 1.4 to "DHCPv6 Server Behavior"


(2) MINOR: Section 1.3:

In the following:

   In the event that the client receives OPTION_V6_S46_PRIORITY with the
   following errors, it MUST be discarded:

   o  No s46-option-code field is included.
   o  Multiple s46-option-code fields with the same value are included.

This generates an obligation on the client to check whether a value is replicated in the list. It should still be possible to use the list in this case, so is it really important that the list be discarded rather than used?

And if the list is empty then following the procedures (and hence finding no match) will produce the same functional result as ignoring the option.

It seems like simply saying nothing about these "errors" would produce comparable results while being simpler.


3) NIT: Section 1.4:

Use of terminology "option foo" seems strangely informal here. I suggest something like:

   As a convenience to the reader, we mention here that the server
   will send a particular option code only if configured with specific
   values for that option code and if the client requested it.

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