Ketan,
On 9/20/22 10:30 AM, Ketan Talaulikar wrote:
1) NIT: 1 Introduction
IDNITS reports:
-- Possible downref: Non-RFC (?) normative reference: ref.
'IEEE802.1AX'
As best I can tell there is no need for this reference to be normative.
(Its only an example in the introduction.) I suggest making this a
non-normative reference.
KT> We kept it as normative since this document is all about "bundle
members" and that refers to the 802.1AX. However, I am ok to change that
to informative if the IESG suggests so.
I just saw a draft concerned with this issue:
Last Call: <draft-kucherawy-bcp97bis-02.txt> (Procedures for Standards
Track Documents to Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level) to
Best Current Practice
It isn't approved yet so it isn't definitive, but its close enough that
it might be wise to follow it.
Its easier to just avoid the issue by calling the reference
non-normative. But its your call, together with your AD.
2) MINOR: Section 2: Normative requirements on future documents
While I don't fully understand all the document dependencies, the
following normative requirement:
... Specifications that introduce new sub-TLVs of the Extended Link
TLV MUST indicate their applicability for the L2 Bundle Member
Attributes Sub-TLV. An implementation MUST ignore any sub-TLVs
received that are not applicable in the context of the L2 Bundle
Member Attribute Sub-TLV.
looks to me like it may be imposing requirements on future work that
may
not itself be aware of or normatively linked to this document.
KT> This is correct.
The
registry in question is defined only by RFC7684. Figure 2 further
supports this point by effectively revising the format for the
registry,
adding an additional column.
KT> The intention was not to change the registry format. Please see
further below.
I suggest it would be appropriate to formally update the registry to
reference this document to impose requirements on future registrations,
and add a column indicating applicability in the context of the L2
Bundle Member Attribute Sub-TLV.
The same logic applies to Figure 3 and the IANA OSPFv3 Extended-LSA
Sub-TLVs registry. I suggest the same sort of fix for it.
KT> Your point is valid and this has been discussed with the AD and the
WG. Please check the following threads for those details and how we got
to the current state of the document:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lsr/1MzfiHUq7LlY9VQFhtLR7j9eo2g/
<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lsr/1MzfiHUq7LlY9VQFhtLR7j9eo2g/>
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lsr/UJgcBwSLcbVYPjrp0SicsDcHpj0/
<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lsr/UJgcBwSLcbVYPjrp0SicsDcHpj0/>
I can't decipher the logic of the discussion. (Feels like I need more
context than what is in the thread, but I didn't spend a lot of time
trying.)
I acknowledge that it isn't strictly necessary to change the table
format in the registry.
But it is essential to do *something* that forces anyone trying to add a
new entry to either of those tables to "indicate their applicability for
the L2 Bundle Member Attributes Sub-TLV". That needs to be a new
requirement for adding an entry to either table.
How to achieve that? Currently someone wanting to add to those tables
will look for the applicable rules in the Reference at the top of the
table, to [RFC7684]. That doesn't impose your new rule. So at the least,
you can add an additional reference to the top of each table, to your
document.
And then, to make it clear, I recommend adding another item to your IANA
Considerations that clearly states it applies to anyone adding or
changing anything in these tables, and restate or clearly reference the
requirements I highlighted to in Section 2.
While adding an applicability column isn't technically necessary, it
would make it harder for future updates to forget this step, since they
would be forced to figure out what to put in that column.
One last thought: have you considered whether potential future updates
to the definitions to currently defined sub-TLVs could ever change their
applicability? I suspect any time a change is made to the registry that
adds/replaces a reference to a document defining a sub-TLV, the newly
referenced document will need to "indicate applicability".
Thanks,
Paul
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