Thanks

WriteUp submitted as well.

L.

> On 25 Nov 2025, at 16:40, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM, Luigi Iannone <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hi Warren,
>> all good to me.
>> Once you submit the new revision I’ll submit the shepherd writeup.
> 
> 
> Done. 
> 
> Here is the output from IDNITS along with explanations: 
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/api/idnits?url=https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-intarea-v4-via-v6-05.xml
> 
>   https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info):
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>      No issues found here.
> 
>   Checking nits according to https://www.ietf.org/id-info/1id-guidelines.txt:
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   == There are 4 instances of lines with non-ascii characters in the document.
> 
> Yes. These are in proper names: T. Høiland-Jørgensen  and Éric Vyncke
>   Checking nits according to https://www.ietf.org/id-info/checklist :
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   == There are 6 instances of lines with non-RFC6890-compliant IPv4 addresses
>      in the document.  If these are example addresses, they should be changed.
> 
>   == There are 6 instances of lines with private range IPv4 addresses in the
>      document.  If these are generic example addresses, they should be changed
>      to use any of the ranges defined in RFC 6890 (or successor): 192.0.2.x,
>      198.51.100.x or 203.0.113.x.
> 
>   == There are 1 instance of lines with non-RFC3849-compliant IPv6 addresses
>      in the document.  If these are example addresses, they should be changed.
> 
> Yup, these are all in the "Implementation Status ( This section to be removed 
> before publication. )", except for 192.0.0.8 (which clearly should remain):
> "If a router does not have any IPv4 addresses assigned, the router MUST use
> the dummy address 192.0.0.8 as the source address of outgoing ICMP packets
> ([RFC7600], Section 4.8, Requirement R-22)."
> 
>   Miscellaneous warnings:
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   -- Found something which looks like a code comment -- if you have code
>      sections in the document, please surround them with '<CODE BEGINS>' and
>      '<CODE ENDS>' lines.
> 
> Yup, this is: 
> "draft-ietf-intarea-v4-via-v6-04.txt(443): Possible code comment in line:   # 
>      DST-ADDRESS       GATEWAY                             DISTANCE. "
> This is in the "Implementation Status ( This section to be removed before 
> publication. )" section.
>   Checking references for intended status: Proposed Standard
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>      (See RFCs 3967 and 4897 for information about using normative references
>      to lower-maturity documents in RFCs)
> 
>   ** Downref: Normative reference to an Experimental RFC: RFC 7600
> Yup. That is correct — RFC7600 - "IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - A 
> Stateless Solution (4rd)" <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7600/>
> 
> W
> 
>> 
>> Ciao
>> 
>> L.
>> 
>>> On 24 Nov 2025, at 21:39, Warren Kumari <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM, Luigi Iannone <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thank you — I have addressed most of these in the editor copy. 
>>> 
>>> The ones which I did not are related to:
>>> == There are 6 instances of lines with non-RFC6890-compliant IPv4 addresses
>>>      in the document.  If these are example addresses, they should be 
>>> changed.
>>> I did not address these, as they are only in the "# Implementation Status ( 
>>> This section to be removed before publication. )" section.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> L.
>>>> 
>>>>> On 21 Nov 2025, at 14:43, Luigi Iannone <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Juliusz,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for the update.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 20 Nov 2025, at 13:56, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected] 
>>>>>> <mailto:[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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Nope, just an oversight; thank you for catching it.
>>> 
>>> W
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> 
>>>>> L.
> 
> 

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