[Dots] John Scudder's No Objection on draft-ietf-dots-robust-blocks-05: (with COMMENT)

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Thanks for this spec. Also, thanks to Valery Smyslov for the carefully-
written shepherd writeup.

I have just one comment, and one question, about this in Section 3:

   max-payloads:  This attribute echoes the MAX_PAYLOADS parameter in
      [RFC9177].

      This is an optional attribute.  If the attribute is supplied in
      both 'idle-config' and 'mitigating-config', then it MUST convey
      the same value.  If the attribute is only provided as part of
      'idle-config' or 'mitigating-config', then the other (missing)
      definition MUST be updated to the same value.

I think what you're saying here is that if max-payloads is set for
either idle-config or mitigating-config, then that parameter shall be
deemed set for both configs, and to the same quantity. I found the
way of saying it above to be quite confusing, especially the "(missing)"
thing, since if it's optional it can hardly be said to be "missing" just
because it isn't present.

I also wonder if you need to supply some answer to the question of
what should happen if the MUST is violated. E.g. one option might be
to say that if two different values are supplied, the larger of the
two shall be used for both.