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Re: [Dots] AD review of draft-ietf-dots-use-cases-17

Daniel Migault <daniel.migault@ericsson.com> Fri, 12 July 2019 12:14 UTC

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From: Daniel Migault <daniel.migault@ericsson.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 08:13:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Dots] AD review of draft-ietf-dots-use-cases-17
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wit the link:
https://github.com/dotswg/dots-use-cases

Yours,
Daniel

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 8:12 AM Daniel Migault <daniel.migault@ericsson.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the follow up Ben. So I think your concern has been addressed
> by other changes in the document.
> Though I am not saying I do not introduced other nits of the same kind, I
> checked throughout the document
> and I believe any time web interface is mentioned it is currenlty clear it
> does not belong to the network admin.
>
> Maybe some english native co-authors could do a last proof-reading of the
> document to remove these sort of nits.
> the cuurent version is at:
>
>
> The current text is:
>
> """
> The analysis from the
> orchestrator is reported to the network administrator via a web
> interface. If the network administrator decides to start the
> mitigation, the network administrator triggers the DDoS mitigation
> request using the web interface of a DOTS client communicating to the
> orchestrator DOTS server. This request is expected to be associated with
> a context that provides sufficient information to the orchestrator DOTS
> server to infer the DDoS Mitigation to elaborate and coordinate.
> """
>
> Yours,
> Daniel
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 8:40 PM Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 04:13:38PM -0400, Daniel Migault wrote:
>> >
>> > c) it was unclear to me how to address the following comment.
>> >
>> >
>> > >    The communication between a network administrator and the
>> > >    orchestrator is also performed using DOTS.  The network
>> administrator
>> > >    via its web interfaces implements a DOTS client, while the
>> > >    Orchestrator implements a DOTS server.
>> > >
>> > > nit: as written, this is saying that the network administrator has a
>> > > web interface.  I think "its" is supposed to refer to something else.
>> > >
>> > > <mglt>
>> > What we are trying to say is that the network administrator sees its web
>> > interface, and instruct the DOTS client from that interface. I have not
>> > made any change to address that concern, as I do not clearly see what is
>> > confusing.
>> > </mglt>
>>
>> I don't think anyone is actually confused about the meaning; this was just
>> a pedantic comment about the grammar.  "its web interface"  has to belong
>> to something/someone, and with the current wording we are forced to parse
>> the sentence as "the network administrator's web interface", which is
>> surprising since a network administrator is a human and a web interface is
>> usually provided by a webserver.  Perhaps we want to say "The network
>> administrator uses a web interface that implements a DOTS client"?
>>
>> -Ben
>>
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