Hello,

I have been selected as the Routing Directorate reviewer for this draft. The 
Routing Directorate seeks to review all routing or routing-related drafts as 
they pass through IETF last call and IESG review, and sometimes on special 
request. The purpose of the review is to provide assistance to the Routing ADs. 
For more information about the Routing Directorate, please see  
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Although these comments are primarily for the use of the Routing ADs, it would 
be helpful if you could consider them along with any other IETF Last Call 
comments that you receive, and strive to resolve them through discussion or by 
updating the draft.

Document: draft-ietf-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse-08.txt
Reviewer: Daniele Ceccarelli
Review Date: 2019-09-13
IETF LC End Date: date-if-known
Intended Status: Standard Track

Summary:
I have significant concerns about this document and recommend that the Routing 
ADs discuss these issues further with the authors.

Comments:

The drafts needs some improvement to be clear and easy to read. It is outside 
the scope of the RTG-Directorate review to consider consensus on it, but the it 
is not possible to ignore comments received from a WG member of its usefulness. 
Implementations on ISIS segment routing and OSPF segment routing (publicly 
available) prove that applications like Flexible Algorithm, TI-LFA and R-LFA 
can be implemented using TE parameters compliant with RFC3630 and RFC5305 
without the need for these extensions.

That said the rest of the review will be limited only to the quality of the 
document.

Major Issues:

*       No major issue in addition to the one described in the comments.

Minor Issues:

*       Abstract: it would be nice to have an overview of what is the purpose 
of distributing the attributes (in addition to MPLS-TE and GMPLS). The document 
starts with a very generic scope but then focuses on segment routing. It could 
be stated at the beginning.
*       Section 2: what does this sentence mean?: “Additionally, there will be 
additional standardization effort. Additionally, there will be additional 
standardization effort.  However, this could also be viewed as an advantage as 
the non-TE use cases for the TE link attributes are documented and validated by 
the LSR working group”
*       It is not clear the usage of RFC2119 language (RECOMMENDED) in section 
2.1, is section 2.1 defining a new procedure? My understanding is that section 
2 is the actual solution while section 3 is the newly defined one. Am I wrong? 
If so it should be made a bit more clear and I would expect to see RFC2119 
language only in section 3.
*       Section 3: “This situation SHOULD be logged as an error” how? Should a 
notification be sent? Logging an error is not part of the protocol definition 
but rather an implementation issue.
*       Section 4: the title is misleading. It is defining how to encode the 
list of attributed defined at the end of section 3 (some of them are reused, 
some others are TBD), why the title of the section is Reused TE link attributes?
*       Sections 5-6-7: Section 3 describes the procedure and TLV format, 
section 4 the encoding of the attributes…what is defined in section 5-6-7. If I 
search for e.g. Maximum link bandwidth (the title of section 5), the first 
occurrence is the title of section 5. Maybe gouping sections 5-6-7 into a 
single one with an intro of what is defined could improve the reading. 

Nits:

*       MPLS TE is sometimes in capital letters and sometimes not.
*       SRTE expand on first use.

 

BR

Daniele  

 

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