[Gen-art] Gen-ART telechat review of draft-ietf-netmod-routing-cfg-24

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 01 November 2016 01:54 UTC

To: Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Organization: University of Auckland
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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:54:18 +1300
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Subject: [Gen-art] Gen-ART telechat review of draft-ietf-netmod-routing-cfg-24
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This didn't have a chance to be updated before the cutoff,
so technically it's still "Ready with Issues", but I am
completely happy with Lada's proposed changes.

Regards
   Brian

On 25/10/2016 20:56, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> thank you for the review. Please see my replies inline.
> 
>> On 25 Oct 2016, at 01:07, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area
>> Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed
>> by the IESG for the IETF Chair.  Please treat these comments just
>> like any other last call comments.
>>
>> For more information, please see the FAQ at
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>>
>> Document: draft-ietf-netmod-routing-cfg-24.txt
>> Reviewer: Brian Carpenter
>> Review Date: 2016-10-25
>> IETF LC End Date: 2016-11-03
>> IESG Telechat date: 2016-11-03
>>
>> Summary: Ready with (minor) issues
>> --------
>>
>> Comments:
>> ---------
>>
>> This seems to be a fine document. FYI I am not a YANG expert.
>>
>> There is a dissent on a point of principle in the WG archive at
>> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/netmod/current/msg16705.html:
>> "Given the historical opposition to revising models once they have been cast as RFCs
>> that we have seen within the IETF, then I feel that avoiding incomplete models going
>> to RFC is the best course of action."
>>
>> My understanding is that YANG models are intrinsically extensible, and this is
>> noted in the Abstract and Introduction. So I don't find this dissent compelling.
> 
> Indeed, this data model is intended as a basis for other models, e.g. for routing protocols. Several such model are already under way.
> 
>>
>> Minor Issues:
>> -------------
>>
>> 1)
>> Re on-link-flag and autonomous-flag: Please consider adding a normative
>> reference to the approved RFC-to-be draft-ietf-6man-multi-homed-host,
>> as well as RFC 4861. That document specifies that having both these flags
>> set to False is a legitimate combination, against current expectations.
> 
> Will add.
> 
>>
>> 2)
>> Did you consider doing anything explicit for ULA prefixes, or would
>> this just be handled by special-next-hop/prohibit in border routers?
> 
> 
> The "ietf-ipv6-router-advertisements" submodule just tries to cover the parameters specified in RFC 4861. I understand that configuration specific to ULA prefixes is an add-on to this base set, and this can be implemented via augmenting the core model from other modules.
>  
>>
>> 3)
>>> Appendix B.  Minimum Implementation
>>>
>>>  Some parts and options of the core routing model, such as user-
>>>  defined RIBs, are intended only for advanced routers.  This appendix
>>>  gives basic non-normative guidelines for implementing a bare minimum
>>>  of available functions.  Such an implementation may be used for hosts
>>>  or very simple routers.
>>
>> IPv6 hosts should definitely not send RFC4861 router advertisements.
>> Should that be stated in this appendix?
> 
> Yes, good point, will do.
> 
> Thanks, Lada
> 
> --
> Ladislav Lhotka, CZ.NIC Labs
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[Gen-art] Gen-ART Last Call review of draft-ietf-… Brian E Carpenter
Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART Last Call review of draft-i… Ladislav Lhotka
[Gen-art] Gen-ART telechat review of draft-ietf-n… Brian E Carpenter
Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART telechat review of draft-ie… Jari Arkko
Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART telechat review of draft-ie… Ladislav Lhotka
Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART telechat review of draft-ie… Brian E Carpenter