Re: [6tisch] Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-security-13: (with DISCUSS)

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Barry Leiba via Datatracker <[e-mail]> wrote:
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    > DISCUSS:
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    > I have some issues with the references here, which should be resolvable
    > simply by making some normative.

    > RFC 8505 provides terminology as well as neighbor discovery (in
    > Sections 4.2 and 6), so it seems to me that it should be a normative
    > reference.

    > As draft-ietf-6tisch-architecture is used for both necessary
    > terminology and concepts, I can’t see how it isn’t normative.  I did
    > find that I had to check it during my review.

    > In Section 5: In an operational 6TiSCH network, all frames MUST use
    > link-layer frame security [RFC8180].

    > This would seem to be a MUST referring to 8180, making that a normative
    > reference as well.  But possibly this might not really be a MUST
    > imposed here, and is instead citing a requirement from elsewhere.  In
    > that case, I would simply remove the word “MUST”, so it is stating a
    > fact, rather than a new requirement.  You might similarly consider the
    > subsequent sentence.  In any case, I do wonder whether 7554 and 8180
    > should be normative.

I moved all three references to normative.

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