Re: [bess] John Scudder's Discuss on draft-ietf-bess-evpn-oam-req-frmwk-08: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

["Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <[e-mail]>]

And as  shared John’s concern, the new text looks like fixing the problem

Thank for having updated the document

-éric

From: iesg <[e-mail]> on behalf of John Scudder <jgs=[e-mail]>
Date: Monday, 12 April 2021 at 19:39
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Subject: Re: John Scudder's Discuss on draft-ietf-bess-evpn-oam-req-frmwk-08: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Thanks for hopping threads, I shoulda caught that last one. Your proposed change looks fine, I’ll remove my DISCUSS in anticipation of you issuing a new version. (One nit on your new text, “in order maximize” should be “in order to maximize”.)

—John


On Apr 12, 2021, at 1:03 PM, Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:


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Hi,

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 10:04 PM John Scudder via Datatracker <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
> John Scudder has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-bess-evpn-oam-req-frmwk-08: Discuss
>
> ...
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> DISCUSS:
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> Section 2.3:
>
>    EVPN Network OAM mechanisms MUST provide in-band monitoring
>    capabilities. As such, OAM messages MUST be encoded so that they
>    exhibit identical entropy characteristics to data traffic in order
>    that they share the same fate.
>
> It’s not obvious to me what you mean by “identical entropy characteristics to
> data traffic”. Surely, different flows may have different entropy
> characteristics, so, *which* data traffic? Similarly, with which data traffic
> are you saying the OAM messages must share fate?

I guess when you changed your COMMENT to a DISCUSS it creates a new thread so I should reply here as I did to this when it was a COMMENT:

How about something more like:
EVPN Network OAM mechanisms MUST provide in-band monitoring capabilities. OAM messages SHOULD be encoded so that they exhibit similar entropy characteristics to data traffic in order maximize the fate sharing between OAM and data.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks for the clear and readable document. I have one nit and one question.
>
> 1. Section 1, nit:
>
> “EVPN is an Layer 2” s/an/a/

OK.

Thanks,
Donald
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