Re: [6lo] Fragment recovery, shepherd writeup: one minor point

Dear Pascal,

Thanks for the new draft version.

Your update looks good to me!

Cheers,

Carles

> Dear Carles:
>
> I pushed an 06 that passes the doc to xml2rfc v3, and moves the ref to the
> LWIG implementation to informational.
> Please note that the main reason of the text about it is to indicate that
> it is non-compatible with this draft.
> For that reason it was actually strange to make it a normative reference,
> many thanks for spotting it..
>
> All the best;
>
> Pascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carles Gomez Montenegro <carlesgo@entel.upc.edu>
> Sent: dimanche 20 octobre 2019 17:15
> To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <pthubert@cisco.com>
> Cc: 6lo@ietf.org
> Subject: Fragment recovery, shepherd writeup: one minor point
>
> Hello Pascal,
>
> While preparing my shepherd write-up for the 6lo fragment recovery draft,
> I noticed one minor detail that I would like to bring to your attention.
>
> In -05, draft-ietf-lwig-6lowpan-virtual-reassembly was added as a
> reference. I think it is a bit odd that this document is mentioned for the
> first time only at the end of the Security considerations section (note
> that this reference is in fact a normative reference).
>
> My proposal is updating the second paragraph of Section 1, and the last
> paragraph of Section 2.4, so that
> draft-ietf-lwig-6lowpan-virtual-reassembly is also introduced there.
>
> For example, for Section 2.4, it could be something along the lines of:
>
> CURRENT:
>    "LLN Minimal Fragment Forwarding" [I-D.ietf-6lo-minimal-fragment]
>    introduces the concept of a Virtual Reassembly Buffer (VRB) and an
>    associated technique to forward fragments as they come, using the
>    datagram_tag as a label in a fashion similar to MPLS.  This
>    specification reuses that technique with slightly modified controls.
>
> NEW:
>    "LLN Minimal Fragment Forwarding" [I-D.ietf-6lo-minimal-fragment]
>    introduces the concept of a Virtual Reassembly Buffer (VRB) and an
>    associated technique to forward fragments as they come, using the
>    datagram_tag as a label in a fashion similar to MPLS. The technique is
>    described in [I-D.ietf-lwig-6lowpan-virtual-reassembly].  This
>    specification reuses that technique with slightly modified controls.
>
> .... and something similar might work also for Section 1.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carles (as the document shepherd)
>
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