Hi WG, Authors,

Support publication. The document reads well and describes key concepts
clearly. Just some friendly suggestions for the authors to consider -

- IMHO introduction section should be expanded as it can provide helpful
clues to new-bees, our published document is not just for the insiders.
- Section 2.1, is there any guidance for the IP address for the headend and
endpoint? If a node is identified by multiple addresses, from the point of
view of the SR policy they would be considered as different nodes, correct?
- Section 2.1, I am worried that the use of the noun "intent" to describe
'color'. It does not align with the other use of the term in industry/NMRG.
I see 'SLA associated with color' in other places. There was a jabber
discussion in 110, maybe I am in rough here but wanted to reconfirm!
- Section 2.3, Reference to RFC 8664 for PCEP is wrong here, as <color,
endpoint> is signalled via draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-policy-cp instead.
- Section 2.3, What are the 8-bit values for the Protocol-Origin, is there
an existing registry that is used here? Is it -
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-idr-te-lsp-distribution-14#section-9.4
, should it be listed in this document perhaps?
- Section 2.4, For ASN, maybe add "If 2-byte ASNs are in use, the low-order
16 bits MUST be used, and the high-order bits MUST be set to zero.". For
IPv4 Node Address, I would suggest adding the high-order bits MUST be set
to zero!
- Section 2.5, in draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-policy-cp, no further
clarification is given about the Discriminator and it simply points to this
I-D. This draft says it is left for the future for PCEP. Since the I-D says
tuple <Protocol-Origin, originator, discriminator> uniquely identifies a
candidate path; we need to specify clearly how to populate the
discriminator value in PCEP in this I-D or in PCE WG I-D (it cant be left
for the future IMHO)!
- Section 2.7, we need to say that preference is a 32-bit value (as done
for other fields).
- Section 2.11, why only a SHOULD and not MUST in "Only the active
candidate path SHOULD be used for forwarding traffic that is being steered
onto that policy."?
- Section 3, The focus is on SR headend, some text on SR-DB at the
controller would be nice. Further, in "A non-attached (remote) domain
topology MAY be learned via BGP-LS or NETCONF."; could we clarify that this
is at the controller? The PCEP references should be changed to
draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-policy-cp.
- Section 4, there should be rules regarding which combinations of segment
types are allowed to form a valid segment list. Cant mix SR-MPLS and SRv6
for example!
- Section 10, It might be a good idea to acknowledge security
considerations from the SR policy architecture point of view: how various
SR policy parameters and attributes could be exploited to make a headend to
forward the traffic incorrectly. It is better to add details that clearly
show that the authors/WG have given it a thought and analyzed the
implications.
- Section 11, What is the range of the value for Segment Types? A-Z only?
It would be good to be clear about this. With A-K already allocated, worth
thinking if this is too restrictive and not future-proof. Perhaps we could
think of the value as a string that is currently populated with a single
alphabetic character.
- Since the I-D talks about policy configuration, explicit candidate paths,
verification, SR-DB, etc. I don't want to add work for the authors but I do
feel in this case a dedicated manageability consideration section would be
useful :)

Nits
- Expand on first use: SRv6, SRGB, SRLB,SRLG, SRH, BSID, PW, BFD,
- s/SR DB/SR-DB/g
- Section 2.2, s/via protocols like/via protocol extensions like/

Hope the authors and WG find these suggestions useful.

Thanks!
Dhruv
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:27 AM James Guichard <
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