[Gen-art] Re: draft-ietf-bess-evpn-bfd-10 early Genart review

[Vijay Gurbani <[e-mail]>]

Dear Donald, thank you for your attention to my Gen-Art comments.

On Tue, May 20, 2025, 10:47 AM Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Vijay,
>
> Thanks for your review. See below.
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM Vijay Gurbani via Datatracker
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > Document: draft-ietf-bess-evpn-bfd
> > Title: EVPN Network Layer Fault Management
> > Reviewer: Vijay Gurbani
> > Review result: Ready with Nits
> >
> > I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area
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> >
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> >
> > Document: draft-ietf-bess-evpn-bfd-10
> > Reviewer: Vijay K. Gurbani
> > Review Date: 2025-05-20
> > IETF LC End Date: Not known
> > IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
> >
> > Summary: This I-D is ready to be published as a standards document.
> >
> > Major issues: 0
> >
> > Minor issues: 0
> >
> > Nits: 3
> >
> > Nits:
> > 1. Section 1: s/that is to say between/that is, between/
>
> OK
>
> > 2. Section 3: "Continuity testing at each layer SHOULD, if possible,..."
> Here,
> > isn't the "if possible" redundant?  After all, then normative strength is
> > SHOULD which loosely implies "if possible".
>
> OK
>
> > 3. Section 7: "...could affect the
> > packet load on the network..." Would it be possible to expand on how
> could the
> > document affect the packet load on the network?  For instance, is the
> network
> > affected because the packet size becomes large, and therefore requires
> more
> > processing at the endpoints and intermediaries?  Or is the network load
> > affected due the expected large number of EVIs once this standard is
> > implemented?  Or are there other reasons inherent in the implementation
> of the
> > document that would increase the network load?
>
> Sure, we can add a few words saying that the increase in load is
> primarily due to the increase in the number of packets due to bfd
> packets.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
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