[Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-expl-track-10

[Brian Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Reviewer: Brian Carpenter
Review result: Ready with Issues

Gen-ART Last Call review of draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-expl-track-10

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Document: draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-expl-track-10.txt
Reviewer: Brian Carpenter
Review Date: 2018-10-02
IETF LC End Date: 2018-10-09
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Summary: Ready with issues
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Comments: 
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I agree with the point raised in the Routing Area review
(be explicit about the updated sections of RFC 6514, 6625,
and 7524).

Minor issues:
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As I understand it, if a network only partially supports the new
(LIR-pF) flag, it doesn't work properly. So we find at the end of
section 2:

...the ingress node can conclude
   that the egress node originating that Leaf A-D route does not support
   the LIR-pF flag.

   The software at the ingress node SHOULD detect this, and should have
   a way of alerting the operator that the deployment is not properly
   configured.

I don't see why this is only a SHOULD, and I don't see why the operator
alert is not a MUST too. Surely the operator always needs to be alerted?