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Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-kompella-l2vpn-l2vpn-07

2011-09-16 14:32:43
Hi Roni,

On Sep 7, 2011, at 4:37 , Roni Even wrote:

I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, 
please see the FAQ at 
<http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq>.

Thanks!

Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may 
receive.

Document: draft-kompella-l2vpn-l2vpn-07
Reviewer: Roni Even
Review Date: 2011–9–7
IETF LC End Date: 2011–9–27
IESG Telechat date:
 
Summary: This draft is not ready for publication as an informational RFC. 
 
Major issues:
 
The IANA considerations section says:
“the values  already allocated are in Table 1 of Section 4.  The allocation 
policy  for new entries up to and including value 127 is "Standards Action".  
The allocation policy for values 128 through 251 is "First Come First 
Served".  The values from 252 through 255 are for "Experimental Use".”

Standards Action will be changed to Expert Review.

Yet this is document is intended for Informational status which contradict 
the standard action. This is also true for the second registry defined.
 
Is this document really an Informational one?

My only comment is that it is not Historic.

Minor issues:
 
1.       In section  1.2.2 “Since "traditional" Layer 2 VPNs (i.e., real 
Frame Relay circuits connecting sites) are indistinguishable from 
tunnel-based VPNs from  the customer's point-of-view, migrating from one to 
the other raises  few issues.” What are the few issues?

A subtlety: "few issues" means not many, not deep; it's a careful way of 
saying, "just about no issues".  "A few issues" would require elaboration.

2.       In section 4 “L2VPN TLVs can be added to extend the information 
carried in the NLRI, using the format shown in Figure 2”. How is the TLV 
carried in the NLRI, in which field, section 4.1 only talk about the 
structure of the TLV.

I'll take the figure from 3.2.2 of RFC 4761 and show where the TLVs go.

3.       Section 4.2 refers to section 4 but I am not sure where this 
mechanism in section 4 is.

Will clarify.

 
 
 
 
 
Nits/editorial comments: 
 
1.       Section 3.1 is called network topology but the whole text is an 
example of a network topology. Maybe the title should be “Example of a 
network toplogy”.

Sure.

2.       Section 5 starts with “As defined so far in the document ….” But the 
using IP only is already discussed in previous sections.

Do you have a suggestion for rewording?

Thanks,
Kireeti.


 

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