[core] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-core-block-19: (with COMMENT)

["Stephen Farrell" <[e-mail]>]

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draft-ietf-core-block-19: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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The intro and early section 2 has quite a bit of argument
as to why this design is good or better than some other.
For this reader, that's not really needed (I assume the WG
had those discussions). I think this is an example of a
recurring problem with the text here - with too many words,
clarity suffers. For example the Implementation note on p7
is, just by itself, the best and would be a sufficient
explanation of, the encoding, the description of which is
otherwise pretty opaque. There's also a good bit of
repetition that makes this a harder read in general. That's
all just IMO of course, and there may be history in the WG
that provides good cause for so many words to be needed.
All that said, I assume that it's too late to reduce the
size of this document, so no action is required unless the
authors/WG/chairs would themselves like to try remove
words.