P.S.

You may consider as well to take care of the idnits: 
https://author-tools.ietf.org/api/idnits?url=https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-intarea-v4-via-v6-04.txt

L.

> On 21 Nov 2025, at 14:43, Luigi Iannone <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Juliusz,
> 
> Thanks for the update.
> 
>> On 20 Nov 2025, at 13:56, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I did read this document as part of my shepherding.
>>> 
>>> Very well written and to the point. Thank you.
>> 
>> Thanks, Luigi.
>> 
>>> I have a couple of nits that I put hereafter, marked with [LI].
>> 
>> I've just published -04, which includes your changes except the following
>> one:
>> 
>>>>  Resolution may be recursive: the next-hop may itself be a prefix that
>>>>  requires further resolution to map to the outgoing interface and L2
>>>>  address.  V4-via-v6 routing does not prevent recursive resolution.
>>> 
>>> [LI] Does this include any form of recursion or just v4 -> v6 -> v6 ….. etc 
>>> ?
>>> Can you clarify?
> 
> Actually my point was about clearly stating that once you are in the ipv6 
> domain you stay in ipv6.
> But at the end of the day since this document is about v4-via-v6 it should be 
> ok the way it is stated now.
> 
>> 
>> Since we only define v4-via-v6, once you're in v6 land you stay there.  If
>> we were to ever define v6-via-v4 (which I'm not advocating), then you
>> could in principle alternate between the two domains, which would likely
>> lead to an increase in nervous breakdowns among network administrators.
>> 
>> I'm not too keen on expanding on this statement, since I have no
>> operational experience with recursive v4-via-v6, and I'm afraid I'll say
>> something wrong.  So please let me take the low-risk path of not saying
>> anything more about recursion, at least until we get some operational
>> experience with recursion together with v4-via-v6.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> 
>> -- Juliusz
> 
> 
> The following comment in section 4 has not been addressed.
> 
>> 
>>  Routers implementing the mechanism described in this document do not
>>  need to have any IPv4 addresses assigned to any of their interfaces,
>>  and RFC 1812 does not specify what happens if no router-id has been
> 
> [LI] Any reason why “RFC 1812” is not in brackets?
> 
> Any reason not evident to me?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> L.

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