Thanks, Eric. I do have another set of fixes that I missed coming soon and
will follow up separately with that.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 8:38 AM Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello Nick, and other authors,
>
> Thank you for your prompt answer. The -18 indeed addresses my blocking
> DISCUSS concern; even if it left many of my COMMENT-level issues
> unaddressed, I will shortly clear my ballot position in YES.
>
> Note that when addressing a comment about "routing header *type* 0", you
> added a sentence in section without the "type" in `Unlike routing header 0,`😊
> it would be nice to also fix it.
>
> Regards
>
> -éric
>
>
> *From: *Nick Buraglio <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 03:32
> *To: *Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *The IESG <[email protected]>; [email protected] <
> [email protected]>; [email protected] <
> [email protected]>; [email protected] <
> [email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; Zafar Ali
> (zali) <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: Éric Vyncke's Discuss on
> draft-ietf-spring-srv6-security-17: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
>
> Comments inline. Unless noted, I have implemented these in -18, if
> they meet your approval I can incorporate them with the next
> submission. There is another email coming that addresses a lot of the
> non-discussion comments all in one email since there was a bit of
> overlap there.
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 6:10 AM Éric Vyncke via Datatracker
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Éric Vyncke has entered the following ballot position for
> > draft-ietf-spring-srv6-security-17: Discuss
> >
> > When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all
> > email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this
> > introductory paragraph, however.)
> >
> >
> > Please refer to
> https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/handling-ballot-positions/
> > for more information about how to handle DISCUSS and COMMENT positions.
> >
> >
> > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-spring-srv6-security/
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > DISCUSS:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > # Éric Vyncke INT AD comments for draft-ietf-spring-srv6-security-17
> > CC @evyncke
> >
> > Thank you for the work put into this document. It is well structured,
> easy to
> > read, and quite useful. Thanks to the authors for navigating in muddy
> waters ;-)
> >
> > Please find below one blocking DISCUSS points (easy to address), some
> > non-blocking COMMENT points/nits (replies would be appreciated even if
> only for
> > my own education).
> >
> > Special thanks to Zafar Ali for the shepherd's detailed write-up
> including the
> > WG consensus *and* the justification of the intended status.
> >
> > I hope that this review helps to improve the document,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -éric
> >
> > Note: this ballot comments follow the Markdown syntax of
> > https://github.com/mnot/ietf-comments/tree/main, i.e., they can be
> processed by
> > a tool to create github issues.
> >
> > ## DISCUSS (blocking)
> >
> > As noted in
> >
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/statement-iesg-handling-ballot-positions-20220121/
> ,
> > a DISCUSS ballot is a request to have a discussion on the points below; I
> > really think that the document would be improved with a change here, but
> can be
> > convinced otherwise.
> >
> > ### Section 6.3.2.1
> >
> > RFC 8476 is only relevent to communicate the MSD in the SR-MPLS context
> and not
> > in SRv6 ;-) So `Another example in the context of SRv6 is the
> advertisement of
> > an incorrect Maximum SID Depth (MSD) value [RFC8476].` should be removed
> or RFC
> > 9513 be used.
>
> OLD:
> Another example in the context of SRv6 is the advertisement of an
> incorrect Maximum SID Depth (MSD) value [RFC8476].
>
> NEW:
> Another example in the context of SRv6 is the advertisement of an
> incorrect Maximum SID Depth (MSD) value, such as the SRv6 MSD types
> defined in Section 4 of [RFC9352] and Section 4 of [RFC9513] (with the
> general MSD framework described in [RFC8476]).
>
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > COMMENT:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > ## COMMENTS (non-blocking)
> >
> > ### Section 1
> >
> > s/deprecated routing header 0/deprecated routing header *type* 0/ ?
> >
> > s/the bridging of islands of SRv6 devices with standard IPv6 unicast
> > *routing*/the bridging of islands of SRv6 devices with standard IPv6
> unicast
> > *forwarding*/ ?
> >
> > ### Section 2
> >
> > Why not adding RFC 9602 to the list of important RFC as it reserves
> 5f00::/16
> > for SRv6, which could simplify some security policies ? It is cited in
> 7.1.3
> > though.
> >
> > Who is the "we" in `we note that SRv6 is under active development` ? The
> > authors ? The SPRING WG ? the IETF community ? Please be clear or
> rephrase with
> > the passive voice. Also in section 5 and possibly others.
> >
> > ### Section 4
> >
> > The title somehow disagree with `This section introduces the threat
> > *taxonomy*/, i.e., suggest to change the section title to use "taxonomy"
> rather
> > than "terminology".
> >
> > s/The following figure/Figure 1/
> >
> > ### Section 5
> >
> > Some people may prefer "on-path attacks" rather than `man-in-the-middle
> attacks`
> >
> > ### Section 6.2.1.1
> >
> > Adding SRH or SRH TLV is not so easy as it could exceed the MTU, so, the
> > attacked is not so easy to mount. Should this be mentioned ?
> >
> > ### Section 6.3.3.1
> >
> > Add a normative reference to RFC 9259 about the O-flag in `Segment
> Routing
> > Header Flags` even if this RFC is cited in the previous paragraph, the
> link
> > with the O-flag must be clear.
> >
> > ### Section 6.3.4
> >
> > Rename the section title to "Centralized Control Plane Attacks" to be
> > consistent with the text of 6.3.4.1 ?
> >
> > ### Use of SVG graphics
> >
> > To make a much nicer HTML rendering, suggest using the aasvg tool to
> generate
> > SVG graphics. It is worth a try especially if the I-D uses the Kramdown
> file
> > format ;-)
> >
> >
> >
>
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