Re: [dhcwg] WGLC for draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-unknown-msg-03 - Respond by Dec 2, 2013

[Qi Sun <[e-mail]>]

Hi Marcin,

On 2013-12-2, at 下午5:32, Marcin Siodelski wrote:

>>> ISSUE 2
>>> In this sentence:
>>> 
>>> "In the case that a new type of relay message is sent to a relay agent
>>>  but the relay agent doesn't recognize it, the message is put into a
>>>  Relay-forward message and sent to the server."
>>> 
>>> Why "new type of relay message", not "new type of message"? I don't
>>> quite understand what the relay message is in this context.
>> 
>> [Qi] A new type of relay message targets at the relay agent. If a relay agent recognizes the message, then it should consume the message. Otherwise, the relay just sends the message to the server (in a Relay-forward message), so that the server gets the information that this relay doesn't support the new relay agent message.
>> In Bullet (b), the message doesn't take the relay agent as the target.
>> If this part isn't clear enough, we can improve it.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for this explanation. Let me rephrase my question, because I
> was asking about slightly different thing....
> 
> Would it still be ok if we had this text: "In the case that a new type
> of message is sent to a relay agent..... ", instead of "In the case
> that a new type of relay message is sent to a relay agent..."? Simply
> removed "relay". I don't understand how "relay message" is different
> from the "message" or "valid message".
> 

Thanks for your patience. What I wanted to say was that the new type of message targets at the relay agent rather than the client/server. IMHO, if remove "relay", the relationship between this paragraph and the bullet (b) might be a little confusing. 
How about this:

   In the case that a new type of message targets at a relay agent
   but the relay agent does not recognize it, ...

Would the expression be better?

Thanks, 
Qi