[Anima] "virtual out-of-band" ... or some minor non-ACP-number comments on Action: draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-25.txt

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

On 2020-06-23 10:31 p.m., [e-mail] wrote:
 > A diff from the previous version is available at:
 > 
https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-25

yes, I read the diffs :-)

-   This document describes a modular design for a self-forming, self-
-   managing and self-protecting ACP, which is a virtual in-band network
-   designed to be as independent as possible of configuration,

+   This document describes a modular design for a self-forming, self-
+   managing and self-protecting ACP, which is a virtual out-of-band
+   network designed to be as independent as possible of configuration,

This change from being a virtual in-band network to a virtual 
out-of-band network must have been in response to some comments... It 
seems a big change in some ways.  I guess it makes this text consistent 
with the abstract which has said virtual out-of-band for awhile now.

But, I do have to wonder if we are creating confusion by claiming that 
this is an out-of-band mechanism, even though it's really an in-band 
mechanism.  It's just virtually-out.

I actually do want to start a bike-shed issue here?
Are we describing ourself wrong?  Maybe there is some portmanteau that 
would be more accurate?  I think that the above sentence is essentially 
the elevator pitch for all of ANIMA.


There is also a bunch of other text that has been added to the 
Introduction, which I think confuses more than it enlightens.
Or at least needs a better copy-edit.

A number of other new sections (9.4..) need a copy-edit to fix some 
missing words.  I will try to help Toerless with that via github.