Re: [VRRP] COMMENT: draft-ietf-vrrp-unified-spec

["Stephen Nadas" <stephen.nadas at ericsson.com>]

Hi Russ, Hi Vijay, 

Thank you for these comments.  I will fix and/or consider clarifications
for the next pass. 

Regards, 
Steve  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Housley [mailto:housley at vigilsec.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 16:48
> To: iesg at ietf.org
> Cc: vkg at alcatel-lucent.com; vrrp-chairs at tools.ietf.org; 
> draft-ietf-vrrp-unified-spec at tools.ietf.org
> Subject: COMMENT: draft-ietf-vrrp-unified-spec 
> 
> Comment:
> 
>   Vijay K. Gurbani made the following suggestions in his Gen-ART
>   Review.  They should be considered by the authors.
> 
>   Summary: This draft is ready for publication as a Proposed
>   Standard.  Some feedback that will hopefully make the dratf
>   more readable follows.
> 
>   - S1.1
>   s/"IPv4" or "IPv6", in text/"IPv4" or "IPv6".  In this text/
> 
>   - S1.6
>   In the definition of "VRRP Router",
>   s/participate in one/participate as one/
> 
>   - S4.1
>   For either the IPv6 case or the IPv4 case, when Rtr2 transitions
>   to being the Master, is its priority changed to 255?  Or does the
>   priority remain 100, thus allowing Rtr1 to come back up at some
>   later time and reclaim its role as Master?
> 
>   - S4.2
>   s/figure),,/figure),/
> 
>   - S5, second paragraph
>   Do you mean "encapsulated in IPv4 packets" instead of
>   "encapsulated in IP packets"?
> 
>   - S5.1
>   The figure in S5.1 starts with a PDU layout of "Version",
>   "Type", ...  However, the text right underneath the figure talks
>   in terms of IPv4 (and later, IPv6) source/destination addresses
>   and other characteristics.  The PDU fields of "Version", "Type"
>   et al. are not discussed until S5.2.
> 
>   Thus, IMHO there is a disconnect between the figure in S5.1 and
>   the subsequent sub-sections that are supposed to explain the
>   fields in the PDU contained in the figure.  Is this intentional?
> 
>   - S6
>   In the definition of "Priority", how does the reader rank the
>   number indicating priority; i.e., the higher the number, the higher
>   the priority?  Or are they related inversely?  I believe it is
>   the former from reading the draft (i.e., higher the number, the
>   higher the priority); but an explicit sentence may not hurt.
> 
> 
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