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

[Juliusz Chroboczek <[e-mail]>]

>>>> 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... :)

>> It's a duck ;-)

> I like the absence of pronouns with unclear antecedents.

While I generally tend to agree with Barbara that it's okay to repeat
oneself if the goal is to avoid unclear language, I may have overdone it
just a wee bit in this particular case.

More seriously, the intent is that the paragraph above is merely
a rewording and expansion of Appendix A of draft-ietf-babel-hmac-00, and
therefore reflects WG consensus.  We're planning to submit hmac-01
tomorrow, with Appendix A omitted, since the format of the trailer is now
defined in rfc6126bis.  See also the last paragraph of Appendix C of
rfc6126bis-06.

-- Juliusz