Re: [DMM] Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-dmm-distributed-mobility-anchoring-13

[Yoshifumi Nishida <[e-mail]>]

Hi Carlos,
Thanks for the response. I put my comments in lines.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 4:20 AM CARLOS JESUS BERNARDOS CANO <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Dear Yoshifumi,
>
> Thanks a lot for the review. Please check inline below for some comments
> from my side.
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 9:57 AM Yoshifumi Nishida via Datatracker <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Reviewer: Yoshifumi Nishida
>> Review result: Almost Ready
>>
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>> Summary: This document is almost ready for publication as an
>> informational RFC,
>> but it will be better to clarify the following points.
>>
>> 1: The examples shown in the draft look behave conveniently.
>>    For examples, in the figure 3 case, the flow is somehow terminated
>> before
>>    the MN moves and is re-initiated after the movement has finished.
>> However, I
>>    believe there should be the cases where applications don't aware of
>> network
>>    changes and transmit data while migrating, which may cause packet
>> drops,
>>    delays and timeouts, etc. I think this draft should clarify the
>> treatments
>>    of these cases. Is it out of scope of the draft? Or, do some components
>>    generate ICMP messages to give some hints to the applications, or
>> provide
>>    buffering features to mitigate the side effects?
>>
>
> [Carlos] I guess you mean Figure 4, right? In that figure, we try to
> explain what would happen if there is no actual mobility support, meaning
> that a communication flow does not need such mobility support. This might
> happen because the flow stops before the movement (as shown in the figure)
> or also because the application can deal with the mobility itself (no
> mobility at the IP layer). We don't explicitly mention that second case
> because it is not in the scope of the draft (IP mobility). We can better
> clarify the scope in the text.
>

Sorry for confusion. Yes, the data flow is explained in Figure 4.
What I wanted to mention was how the flow can stop it without mobility
support. If there's no mobility support, the app should not be able to know
when network change will happen. So, I am thinking that in some cases, the
flow may not able to stop before the movement.
I am guessing this case would be a major case than the case described in
the draft.
Or, is there any available approach here?

>
>
>>
>> 2: Page 8:
>>    "A MN will need to choose which IP prefix/address to use for each flow
>>     according to whether it needs IP mobility support or not."
>>
>>      -> It seems to me that the draft implicitly suggests the use of
>>      draft-ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility here.
>>         If so, I think it would be better to state more explicitly. Or,
>> do we
>>         have other options?
>>
>
> [Carlos] We can definitely add an explicit reference to
> draft-ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility, but I'd mention it as an example. I don't
> have another option in mind, but we can leave it open.
>

Yes, referring as an example is fine. I just thought if this approach can
be used, then it might be better to explain it explicitly.

>
>
>> 3: Page 10:
>>     "the initial anchor remains the anchor and forwards traffic"
>>
>>      -> could be "anchor remains and the anchor.."?
>>
>
> [Carlos] Maybe "mobility anchor remains playing that role and forwards
> traffic"?
>

Works for me. Thanks!
--
Yoshi