On 25 Jul 2013, at 10:39, Ralph Droms <rdroms.i...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:26 PM 7/24/13, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 
> <jinmei.tat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> At Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:19:15 +0200,
>> Ralph Droms <rdroms.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I have a couple of comments on the draft:
>>>> 
>>>> - I think the draft explains the motivation of introducing the new
>> 
>> (I meant "the draft should explain...")
>> 
>>>> scope.  It will also help understand the vague term of the
>>>> "Network-Specific" scope, or "defined automatically from the network
>>>> topology".  I've checked the ML archive and understood it's related
>>>> to http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast-04
>>>> But I suspect it's quite difficult to figure it out just from the
>>>> generic description of the draft.
>>> 
>>> The lack of direct connection between draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast
>>> and this document is intentional.  The purpose of the definition of
>>> Network-Specific scope is to allow the use of that scope by
>>> draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast, as well as other use cases.
>> 
>> I see you want to keep the scope document not too specific.  But in
>> its current form, the concept of "network specific" is too vague and
>> I'm afraid it's reader-unfriendly (in fact I couldn't understand the
>> idea just from this draft and ended up digging into the ML archive).
>> I don't think it too restrictive if we show one specific example of
>> the intended usage with a note that reads "but the use of this scope
>> is not limited to this case; in terms of the scope definition it can
>> be used for any other usage as long as it meets other architectural
>> constraints".
>> 
>> But I wouldn't strongly argue for that.  It's just a suggestion.
> 
> Sounds like a good suggestion to me.  I have no objection to adding such 
> text, if there is WG consensus for the change...

I think the suggested change would enhance the text.

Tim

> 
> - Ralph
> 
>> 
>> --
>> JINMEI, Tatuya
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