Re: [core] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-core-sid-23: (with COMMENT)

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Robert Wilton via Datatracker <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > You can regard all of these comments as non-blocking (against -23):

    > 1. I think that the security reference to "The security and privacy
    > considerations in Sections 5 and 6 of [I-D.bormann-t2trg-deref-id]
    > apply." is somewhat dubious, since it would create a normative
    > reference and block this doc and we don't know what they will
    > eventually say.  Perhaps change this text to make this a softer
    > recommendation, i.e., rather than they saying that they apply, say
    > something like "please also see I-D.bormann-t2trg-deref-id for further
    > considerations that may be applicable"?  This may then allow it the
    > reference to bormann-t2trg-deref-id to be informational rather than
    > normative (but I've not checked other usages).

That sounds like a good plan.

    > 2. The type-1, type-2, type-3 developers are not referenced very much
    > in the doc, and I wonder whether referencing by name wouldn't be more
    > helpful for most readers, e.g., SID-guiding, SID-oblivious, SID-aware).

I don't mind this; the introduction of three types was rather late in the
document, in an attempt to clarify what considerations applied to whom.

    > 3. The text in section 6.4.3, seems to be mostly written about drafts
    > that are creating new YANG modules, and hence allocating new SID files.
    > There doesn't appear to be any text about new revisions of existing
    > published YANG modules that would presumably also need to take into
    > account any previously published SID file for that module previously
    > published in IANA.

6.4.3 is in the IANA Considerations.
In here, we talk about the three types for where they get the old values.
That's paragraph two.  Paragraph three explains how that is fed into a tool,
and thus "take into account any previously published SID file"

So your comment has me rather lost.


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