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

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From: "Bernie Volz (volz)" <volz@cisco.com>
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
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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
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