WFM - thanks!
Lou
On 11/18/2025 6:37 PM, Velt, R. (Ronald) in 't wrote:
Hi,
6) 'Rick Taylor's "Data Item Containers"' is only mentioned in the
Acknowledgments sections of two of the four documents in this group
(draft-ietf-manet-dlep-traffic-classification and
draft-ietf-manet-dlep-da-credit-extension). Would you like to add the
applicable sentence to the Acknowledgments sections of
draft-ietf-manet-dlep-credit-flow-control and
draft-ietf-manet-dlep-ether-credit-extension as well?
Yes, I think it would be reasonable and consistant to add that sentence to
the Acknowledgements sections of the other two drafts. They all mention
Data Items.
Here I have to disagree with my esteemed co-chair. Note that I am not an
author on any of these documents, so consider the following as no more than an
opinion.
I would move in the opposite direction and keep the acknowledgment of Rick
Taylor as "the father of Sub-Data Items" *only* in
draft-ietf-manet-traffic-classification. It is not my intention to diminish in
any way the numerous and important contributions of Rick Taylor to the cluster
of credit-based flow control I-Ds, DLEP as a whole or the MANET WG in general,
but the mention of "Data Item Containers" as a predecessor of "Sub-Data Items"
only makes sense in draft-ietf-manet-dlep-traffic-classification as this is
the only document in the cluster to actually specify Sub-Data Items. I believe
the acknowledgment of Rick Taylor in draft-ietf-manet-dlep-da-credit-extension
is there for "hysterical raisins", i.e., as a left-over from the earliest
versions of this draft which included the Traffic Classification Data Item and
its Sub-Data Items before these were moved elsewhere in version -05. See also
the Acknowledgment section of RFC 8651. (As an aside: I don't like "Sub-Data
Item" as a term. I would have preferred "Data Item Sub-item" or perhaps "Data
Sub-item" or "Data Item Sub-TLV". It is way too late to make any such change,
however, because RFC 8651 has set a precedent).
Thanks,
Ronald
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