Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-babel-dtls-05

[David Schinazi <[e-mail]>]

Hello Dan, and thanks for your review. Comments inline.

1. In section 2.1:
>
> > The default port
>    for Babel over DTLS is registered with IANA as the "babel-dtls" port
>    (UDP port TBD, see Section 4), and the port exchanging unencrypted
>    Babel traffic is registered as the "babel" port (UDP port 6696).
>
> A reference would be desirable here.
>

What reference do you have in mind? This paragraph already has a
reference to Section 4 (IANA Considerations).


> 2. In section 2.4
>
> > Nodes MUST silently ignore any unprotected
>    packet sent over unicast.  When parsing an unprotected packet, a node
>    MUST silently ignore all TLVs that are not of type Hello.  Nodes MUST
>    also silently ignore any unprotected Hello with the Unicast flag set.
>
> Is the last sentence necessary? Is this case not covered by the statement
> in
> the first sentence?
>

The Unicast flag is a bit in the Babel packet. This statement instructs
nodes
to ignore a Hello TLV which was received over multicast but has the unicast
flag set.

Thanks,
David