Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp-22

[Ragnar Sundblad <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dan,

Thank you for reviewing!

On 26 Feb 2020, at 11:06, Dan Romascanu via Datatracker <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Reviewer: Dan Romascanu
> Review result: Ready with Issues
> 
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> Document: draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp-22
> Reviewer: Dan Romascanu
> Review Date: 2020-02-26
> IETF LC End Date: 2020-02-28
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
> 
> Summary:
> 
> Ready with one minor issue to be discussed.
> 
> A very clear, well written, nicely organized document.
> 
> Major issues:
> 
> Minor issues:
> 
> 1. The tables in Sections 7.6, 7.7, 7.8 state that all undefined values in the
> registries start immediately after the values defined by this document with
> 'Reserved for Private and Experimental Use'. What about future extensions in
> future versions of the document? Would not it be better to leave a range for
> future extensions and start the values for private and experimental use farther
> in the total spaces?

We are not sure what you mean - we believe that the tables say that the upper halves of the spaces are 'Reserved for Private and Experimental Use’, while the lower halves are unallocated except for those values that are specified in the draft.

Do you have an example of how you would want it to be written/formatted instead?

> Nits/editorial comments:
> 
> 1. In the (very useful) Appendix A for Terms and Abbreviations, there are a few
> abbreviations usually considered part of the shared basis terms in IETF
> documents (like TCP, UDP, IANA, ...)

Ok - Marcus is doing that right now.

Best regards,

Ragnar