[Gen-art] Gen-ART Telechat review of draft-ietf-avt-rtp-cnames-03.txt

[Suresh Krishnan <[e-mail]>]

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Document: draft-ietf-avt-rtp-cnames-03.txt
Reviewer: Suresh Krishnan
Review Date: 2011/01/02
IESG Telechat date: 2011/01/06

Summary: This draft has addressed my comments from the previous Last 
Call review but has a new issue that needs to be fixed before 
publication as a Proposed Standard.

* Section 5 Step 2

This step describes the use of an EUI-64 identifier and how to generate 
one if it does not exists. The procedure for the creation of the EUI-64 
from a 48 bit MAC address is incorrect.

RFC4291 describes how to create a **modified EUI-64** identifier (and 
not a EUI-64 identifier) from a MAC address.

A MAC address of xx:78:90:12:34:56 will be transformed to a modified 
EUI-64 of

yy7890FFFE123456

where yy is the value of xx with the u/l bit (bit 6) flipped.

The IEEE reference for creation of an EUI-64 from a 48 bit MAC address

http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/tut/eui64.pdf

would result in an EUI-64 of

xx7890FFFF123456 for the same MAC address.

I understand that there will be no interoperability issues due to this 
(since the cname is opaque) but there may be issues with testing 
compliance (since the expected hash values will be way off).

I recommend either using the term "modified EUI-64" instead of EUI-64 or 
changing the reference from RFC4291 to the IEEE document in order to fix 
this inconsistency.

Thanks
Suresh