Re: [6tisch] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-6tisch-msf-10

[Tengfei Chang <[e-mail]>]

H Vijay,

Thanks a lot for the review!

For the major comment, what we want to explain here is that there are
multiple way to limit traffic to lighten the collisions.
Trickle timer is one of those algorithm for that purpose.
What "*This behavior is out of the scope for MSF*." means here actually is
that we don't want to limit the various ways of limiting traffic by just
using Trickle timer.
The implementer can  design their own algorithm to mitigate the traffic
collisions on minimal cell.

The paragraph is rephrased as following:

*To ensure there is enough bandwidth available on the minimal cell, a node
implementing MSF SHOULD enforce some rules for limiting the traffic of
broadcast frames. *
*For example, the overall broadcast traffic among the node and its
neighbors **SHOULD NOT exceed 1/3 of the bandwidth of minimal cell.*
*One of the algorithm met the rule is the Trickle timer defined in
[RFC6206] which is applied on DIO messages [RFC6550]. *
*The algorithm of limiting the broadcast traffic to meet those rules is
implementation-specific and is out of the scope of MSF.*

Does this version sound clear for you?

Tengfei



On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 5:43 PM Vijay Gurbani via Datatracker <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Reviewer: Vijay Gurbani
> Review result: Almost Ready
>
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> Document: draft-ietf-6tisch-msf-10
> Reviewer: Vijay K. Gurbani
> Review Date: 2020-02-14
> IETF LC End Date: 2020-02-27
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
>
> Summary: The draft is almost ready to be published as a Proposed Standard.
>
> Major issues: 1
>
> Minor issues: 0
>
> Nits/editorial comments: 1
>
> Sn below stands for "Section n".
>
> Major:
>
> - S2, paragraph 4: The text says that "...a node implementing MSF SHOULD
> enforce
>   some rules for limiting the traffic broadcast frames...".  It goes ahead
> and
>   gives an example of the "Trickle" operation, but in the very next
> sentence, it
>   says, "This behavior is out of the scope for MSF."  I am confused since
> the
>   paragraph does not seem self consistent.
>
>   The paragraph is asking the implementor to use normative strength
> (SHOULD) to
>   enforce "some" rules, but does not enumerate the rules.  To be fair, the
>   paragraph gives one example of such a rule, but immediately invalidates
> that
>   example!  What would an implementor do?  Where would he or she go to get
> an
>   idea of "some" rules that can be used to limit the traffic of broadcast
>   frames? Perhaps some reference could be provided to a document that
> contains
>   these rules?
>
> Nits:
>
>  - S6: s/It is calculated/The timeout value is calculated/
>
> Thank you.
>
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