Re: [Gen-art] [Last-Call] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-v6ops-cpe-slaac-renum-04

Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net> Fri, 11 September 2020 23:51 UTC

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From: Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net>
To: Bernie Volz <volz@cisco.com>
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I missed that. And indeed the Last Call went out for Proposed Standard. 
Warren should probably look into this before it goes to the IESG.

pr

On 9 Sep 2020, at 19:50, Bernie Volz (volz) wrote:

> Interesting that the datatracker says the document is "Proposed 
> Standard", but the document has "Intend status: Informational". The 
> two should be made to agree.
>
> - Bernie
>
>> On Sep 9, 2020, at 8:45 PM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, Pete,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your feedback! In-line....
>>
>> On 9/9/20 16:39, Pete Resnick via Datatracker wrote:
>> [....]
>>> Major issues: None
>>> draft-ietf-v6ops-cpe-slaac-renum
>>> Minor issues:
>>> The shepherd writeup says:
>>>    The document so far has been approved by the V6OPS working group
>>>    (successful working group last call). The document does not 
>>> specify
>>>    new protocol, but rather changes to the default parameters in
>>>    existing protocols.
>>> However, the document is Informational, as confirmed by the shepherd 
>>> writeup.
>>> If this is actually updating default parameters in protocols, that 
>>> sounds like
>>> it should either be a Standards Track document or more likely a BCP. 
>>> As 2026
>>> says:
>>>    The BCP subseries of the RFC series is designed to be a way to
>>>    standardize practices and the results of community deliberations. 
>>> [...]
>>>    ...[G]ood user
>>>    service requires that the operators and administrators of the
>>>    Internet follow some common guidelines for policies and 
>>> operations.
>>>    While these guidelines are generally different in scope and style
>>>    from protocol standards, their establishment needs a similar 
>>> process
>>>    for consensus building.
>>> That sounds like what this is doing, especially with all of the 2119 
>>> language
>>> in here. Maybe this is Informational because 7084 (and 6204 before 
>>> it) were
>>> Informational, but perhaps 7084 (and other such document) should be 
>>> BCP as
>>> well. Indeed, it sounds like all of these SLAAC operational 
>>> documents could be
>>> in one BCP together.
>>
>> FWIW, the reason for which this document is informational is because 
>> the document it's formally updating (RFC7084) is also informational. 
>> -- Me, I'd probably agree with you that both RFC7084 and this 
>> document should be BCPs, rather than Informational. I'd like to hear 
>> from our AD regarding how to proceed here.
>>
>> FWIW, I'm fine with changing the track to BCP, although I'd also note 
>> that there's plenty of existing practice of documents of this type 
>> published as Informational.
>>
>>
>>
>> Either way, Informational seems wrong.
>>> Nits/editorial comments:
>>> Throughout the document, it says, "This document RECOMMENDS..." or 
>>> "This
>>> document also RECOMMENDS" or "Additionally, this document 
>>> RECOMMENDS". RFC 2119
>>> does not use "RECOMMENDS". You can say "CE Routers SHOULD..." or "A 
>>> Router
>>> Lifetime of ND_PREFERRED_LIMIT is RECOMMENDED" or if you must "It is
>>> RECOMMENDED that..." (blech, I hate the passive form), since SHOULD 
>>> and
>>> RECOMMENDED are equivalent in 2119, but using the "This document 
>>> RECOMMENDS..."
>>> form is weird and isn't in 2119.
>>
>> Fair enough. I'll apply the suggested edit unless I hear otherwise 
>> from others.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> In 3.3, it says:
>>>    o  Upon changes to the advertised prefixes, and after 
>>> bootstrapping,
>>>       the CE router advertising prefix information via SLAAC SHOULD
>>>       proceed as follows:
>>> But then each of the things under there has a SHOULD or a MUST. The 
>>> SHOULD here
>>> is confusing. Instead, the sentence could simply be:
>>>    o  Upon changes to the advertised prefixes, and after 
>>> bootstrapping,
>>>    the CE router advertising prefix information via SLAAC proceeds 
>>> as
>>>    follows:
>>> Similarly:
>>>    This document RECOMMENDS that if a CE Router provides LAN-side 
>>> DHCPv6
>>>    (address assignment or prefix delegation), the following behavior 
>>> be
>>>    implemented:
>>> Just make the sentence:
>>>    If a CE Router that provides LAN-side DHCPv6 (address assignment 
>>> or
>>>    prefix delegation), then:
>>
>> FWIW, the motivation for the "SHOULD" in Section 3.3 is that it 
>> generally implies that the device records prefixes on non-volatile 
>> storage. But there are valid reasons for which a device might be 
>> unable to (e.g., economical, if you wish).
>>
>> Then, the "MUSTs" elsewhere essentially try to signal how crucial 
>> implementation of each specific behavior is.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Regards,
>> -- 
>> Fernando Gont
>> SI6 Networks
>> e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
>> PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492
>>
>>
>>
>>


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