Re: [babel] I-D Action: draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis-06.txt

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Tue, 23 October 2018 20:35 UTC

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internet-drafts@ietf.org writes:

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Babel routing protocol WG of the
> IETF.

Looked at the diff. This paragraph:

> The packet body and the packet trailer are both sequences of TLVs. A
> TLV may appear in the packet trailer only if it is explicitly allowed
> to do so: the receiver MUST silently ignore any TLV that appears in
> the packet trailer unless it is explicitly specified to be allowed in
> the packet trailer. Among the TLVs defined in this document, only Pad1
> and PadN are allowed in the packet trailer; since these TLVs are
> ignored in any case, an implementation MAY silently ignore the packet
> trailer unless it implements at least one extension that uses the
> packet trailer.

says "packet trailer" 7 times. That is painful; please fix... :)

-Toke