Thanks a lot Brian. Your suggested changes look great. I will incorporate
them into the next rev.

Regards
Suresh

On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 5:10 PM Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think this draft is just about ready. A few comments:
>
> > shall we specify that it MUST NOT be in the DFZ
>
> I think the "DFZ" concept is too vague these days and will distract from
> the main message. (Also, this is informational, so we can't say MUST NOT.)
> So it would be good to tighten up the language in other ways. For example:
>
> OLD:
>     While looking at the transit nodes it becomes apparent that these
>     addresses are used purely for routing and not for packet delivery to
>     end hosts.
>
> NEW:
>     While looking at the transit nodes it becomes apparent that these
>     addresses are used purely for routing within the SR domain and not
>     for packet delivery to end hosts.
>
> OLD:
>     As we have established that
>     the SRv6 SIDs are being treated simply as routing prefixes on transit
>     nodes ...
>
> NEW:
>     As we have established that
>     the SRv6 SIDs are being treated simply as routing prefixes on transit
>     nodes within the SR domain ...
>
> And in Section 5 "Allocation of a Global Unicast Prefix for SIDs",
> add some language adapted from RFC 4193:
>
>     Routers at the SR domain boundary must be configured to avoid any
>     packets with IPv6 addresses under this prefix leaking outside
>     of the domain and to keep any part of this prefix from being
>     advertised outside of the domain.
>
> While editing Section 5, I strongly suggest:
>
> OLD:
>     As an added factor of safety, it might be prudent to allocate some
>     address space that explicitly signals that the addresses within that
>     space are not intended to comply with [RFC4291].
>
> NEW:
>     As an added factor of safety, it is desirable to allocate some
>     address space that explicitly signals that the addresses within that
>     space are not intended to comply with [RFC4291].
>
> Also, in section 3, I think it would be better to cite [RFC7608] as
> [BCP198] to emphasise its status.
>
> Regards
>     Brian
>
> On 17-Sep-22 20:00, Jen Linkova wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This email starts the 6man Working Group Last Call for the "Segment
> > Identifiers in SRv6" draft
> > (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-6man-sids).
> >
> > The WGLC ends on Tue, Oct 4, 23:59:59 UTC.
> >
> >   As the document is closely related to the work in the SPRING WG, we'd
> > like the SPRING WG to review the document and discuss the following
> > questions:
> >
> > - the action items required from SPRING (Section 4.1 and 4.2 of the
> > draft,
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-6man-sids-01#section-4)
> > [*]. Would it make sense to merge those open issues with the 'Open
> > Issues' section of
> > the SPRING document?
> > -  whether the document needs more guidance regarding routability of
> > /16 or such requirements shall belong to some other document?  In
> > particular,  shall we specify that it MUST NOT be in the DFZ? Or
> > setting 'Globally Reachable = false' in the registry should be
> > sufficient? The current idea is that the prefix needs to fail closed
> > and not be routable by default.
> >
> > [*] The draft currently refers to the individual submission instead of
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-spring-srv6-srh-compression/
> >   - the link will be updated in the next revision.
> >
> > Please review the draft and send your comments to the list/
> >
>
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