Med,

It seems that you are correct: the ‘Address Registration Option Flags’ registry 
should have bits 4-5 reserved for the I-field per RFC 8505 section 9.2.

So, the IANA consideration of this draft should indeed also update these bits 
(or this could be done by IANA on its own ?)

-éric

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Hi Pascal & Adnan,

Thanks for the effort put into this specification.

Thanks to Samier Barguil for the OPSDIR review and the authors for engaging and
converging with Samier.

# DISCUSS

## I-Flag

CURRENT:
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |r|C| P | I |R|T|     TID       |     Registration Lifetime     |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Seems I-flag was defined in Section 4.1 of RFC 8505 which has the following:

CURRENT:
   I:          2-bit integer.  A value of 0 indicates that the Opaque
               field carries an abstract index that is used to decide in
               which routing topology the address is expected to be
               injected.  In that case, the Opaque field is passed to a
               routing process with the indication that it carries
               topology information, and the value of 0 indicates
               default.  All other values of "I" are reserved and
               MUST NOT be used.

   R:          The Registering Node sets the R flag to request
               reachability services for the Registered Address from a
               Routing Registrar.

   T:          1-bit flag.  Set if the next octet is used as a TID.

While IANA section of RFC 8505 has the following:

   The initial contents of the registry are shown in Table 2.

                +-------------+--------------+------------+
                |  ARO Status | Description  | Reference  |
                +-------------+--------------+------------+
                |     0-5     | Unassigned   |            |
                |             |              |            |
                |      6      | R Flag       | RFC 8505   |
                |             |              |            |
                |      7      | T Flag       | RFC 8505   |
                +-------------+--------------+------------+

              Table 2: New Address Registration Option Flags

I don’t see that flag in thee IANA registry. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong
place.

Should that be fixed as well?


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COMMENT:
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# OPS Implications

The introduction says:

CURRENT:
   This specification updates [RFC8928] by repositioning the C-flag as
   bit 1 of the EARO flags field, thereby preventing conflicts.

Are there known implementations/deployments? What are the implications of this 
change?

Please consider adding those in an Operational considerations Section.

# nits

## Title

OLD: Fixing the C-Flag in EARO
NEW: Fixing the C-Flag in Extended Address Registration Option (EARO)

## Abstract

### I would delete “(AP-ND)” to be consistent with the title used in RFC 8928

###

OLD: updates .. by updating the position

NEW: OLD: updates .. by changing the position

## Section 3

OLD: Figure 1 below
NEW: Figure 1

OLD: Figure 2 below
NEW: Figure 2

## Section 5.1

The IANA action is sufficient in its own, no need to be redundant. I would 
delete the following:

   This specification updates the location of the C-flag introduced in
   [RFC8928] to position it as bit 1 in the EARO flags field.

Cheers,
Med


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