Erik, thanks for your review. Greg, thanks for addressing Erik’s comments. I 
entered a No Objection ballot.

Alissa


> On Dec 17, 2019, at 6:17 PM, Greg Mirsky <gregimir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Erik,
> thank you for your reviews and for sharing thoughts on the selection of the 
> destination IPv6 address. Following recommendations from Adam, I've updated 
> the document to use the proper representation of IPv6 addresses and refer to 
> them as "IPv4-mapped IPv4 loopback addresses". These updates are in the 
> attached diff.. Adam also noted that RFC 8504 doesn't have a similar wording 
> regarding the handling of packets addressed to an address from 127/8 network 
> as RFC 1812 (of course, referring to IPv4-mapped 127/8 addresses):
>       A router SHOULD NOT forward, except over a loopback interface, any
>       packet that has a destination address on network 127.  A router
>       MAY have a switch that allows the network manager to disable these
>       checks.  If such a switch is provided, it MUST default to
>       performing the checks.
> I'd note, that the egress BFD system is expected to accept a BFD packet with 
> the destination IP address from the specified range without being provisioned 
> for the specific address from that range. Perhaps that makes the use of this 
> range possible even though its special handling is not explicitly documented.
> 
> Best regards,
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 9:19 PM Erik Kline via Datatracker <nore...@ietf.org 
> <mailto:nore...@ietf.org>> wrote:
> Reviewer: Erik Kline
> Review result: Ready with Nits
> 
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> Document: draft-ietf-bfd-vxlan-??
> Reviewer: Erik Kline
> Review Date: 2019-12-16
> IETF LC End Date: None
> IESG Telechat date: 2019-12-19
> 
> Summary:
> 
> -09 addresses my concerns from -07.  Thank you for this.
> 
> The one "nit" is that it seems to have introduced a recommendation to use
> ::ffff:7f00:0/104 as an IPv6 loopback prefix.  (a) This document should follow
> the format recommendations of RFC 5952 section 4.3 and lowercase the "F"s.  
> But
> (b) more importantly, I'm not sure how implementations may treats this space.
> 
> The use of an RFC4291 section-2.5.5.2 mapped v4 address doesn't necessarily
> make the packet a part of an IPv6 connection.  Nevertheless, I'm not sure I
> have a strong feeling about this as it may still exercise enough of the IPv6
> stack in a VTEP.
> 
> I definitely do think that in the case of BFD on the management VNI targeting
> an IPv6 link-local address of the VTEP would be better.  However, I expect 
> that
> if ::ffff:127.0.0.0 does prove to have some issues in the future a -bis can be
> written quickly with a recommendation.
> 
> Also, Suresh may have ideas for a solution.
> 
> Major issues:
> 
> Minor issues:
> 
> Nits/editorial comments:
> 
> 
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