Hi Stefano, Brian, 
I agree with Stefano - the overall architecture should be normative for the 
subordinate data plane realizations (MPLS, IPv6) but not vice versa. 
Thanks,
Acee
> On Sep 7, 2015, at 10:04 AM, Stefano Previdi (sprevidi) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> to me, the main document describing segment routing is 
> draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing. Within this document we describe the 
> architecture and main functions.
> 
> draft-spring-segment-routing-mpls describes its instantiation to the mpls 
> dataplane and draft-previdi-6man-segment-routung-header describes its ipv6 
> instantiation.
> 
> Therefore, wouldn't be ok to have draft-previdi listed as informative in the 
> segment routing architecture draft?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> s.
> 
> 
> On Jul 24, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> It seems very strange to me that [I-D.previdi-6man-segment-routing-header]
>> is an Informative reference. Surely it is Normative (i.e., required reading
>> for an implementer)?
>> 
>> That leads to another comment. As we know, if 6man accepts that I-D, it will
>> certainly be on the basis that the header is strictly confined to a
>> "consenting adults" domain (e.g. without middleboxes that can't deal with
>> strange extension headers, without MTU size & fragmentation problems, etc.).
>> But in draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing, there seems to be no definition
>> of a segment-routing domain, what happens at its boundaries, etc. The word
>> "domain" is used but without clear definition. I believe that is of normative
>> importance (i.e. it's not a use case issue) and is needed here so that
>> draft-previdi- can build on it.
>> 
>>   Brian
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> IETF IPv6 working group mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> spring mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spring

_______________________________________________
spring mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spring

Reply via email to