Robert,
Both of your comments have been addressed in latest revision of the draft,

-Rishabh

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:08 AM Rishabh Parekh <risha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Rob,
> I will add a reference to the examples in Appendix in the Introduction and
> see if we can improve readability of text in Section 2.1.
>
> Thanks,
> Rishabh
>
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 10:48 AM Robert Wilton via Datatracker <
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>> draft-ietf-spring-sr-replication-segment-15: No Objection
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>> Hi,
>>
>> (1) p 2, sec 1.  Introduction
>>
>>    Replication segment is a new type of segment for Segment Routing(SR)
>>    [RFC8402], which allows a node (henceforth called a Replication node)
>>    to replicate packets to a set of other nodes (called Downstream
>>    nodes) in a Segment Routing Domain.  Replication segments provide
>>    building blocks for Point-to-Multipoint Service delivery via SR
>>    Point-to-Multipoint (SR P2MP) policy.  A Replication segment can
>>    replicate packets to directly connected nodes or to downstream nodes
>>    (without need for state on the transit routers).  This document
>>    focuses on the Replication segment building block.  The use of one or
>>    more stitched Replication segments constructed for SR P2MP Policy
>>    tree is specified in [I-D.ietf-pim-sr-p2mp-policy].  This document
>>    focuses on specifying replication behavior in an SR domain.  The
>>    management of IP multicast groups, building IP multicast trees, and
>>    performing multicast congestion control are out of scope of this
>>    document.
>>
>> This isn't directly my technology area, but I found this document, at
>> least up
>> to section 2.2.1 to be quite heavy going.  I don't have any great
>> suggestions
>> on how to significantly improve this, but found the examples helpful and
>> wished
>> that I had looked at them first.  So, perhaps include a forward reference
>> to
>> them at the end of the introduction section.
>>
>> Minor level comments:
>>
>> (2) p 5, sec 2.1.  SR-MPLS data plane
>>
>>    SIDs MAY be added before the downstream SR-MPLS Replication SID in
>>    order to guide a packet from a non-adjacent SR node to a Replication
>>    node.  A Replication node MAY replicate a packet to a non-adjacent
>>    Downstream node using SIDs it inserts in the copy preceding the
>>    downstream Replication SID.  The Downstream node may be a leaf node
>>    of the Replication segment, or another Replication node, or both in
>>    case of bud node.  A Replication node MAY use an Anycast SID or BGP
>>    PeerSet SID in segment list to send a replicated packet to one
>>    downstream Replication node in an Anycast set if and only if all
>>    nodes in the set have an identical Replication SID and reach the same
>>    set of receivers.  For some use cases, there MAY be SIDs after the
>>    Replication SID in the segment list of a packet.  These SIDs are used
>>    only by the Leaf/Bud nodes to forward a packet off the tree
>>    independent of the Replication SID.  Coordination regarding the
>>    absence or presence and value of context information for Leaf/Bud
>>    nodes is outside the scope of this document.
>>
>> As a minor tweak to readability, I did wondering whether the above
>> paragraph
>> could be split into something more like a list, i.e., something like:
>>
>> SIDs MAY ...
>>
>>   - A Repliaction node MAY ...
>>   - A Replication node MAY ...
>>   - For some use cases, there MAY ...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rob
>>
>>
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