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

[Dan Romascanu <[e-mail]>]

Thanks for the quick reply.

See in-line.

regards,

Dan


On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 9:29 PM David Schinazi <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> 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).
>

the section in the Babel spec that defines the "babel" port (UDP port 6696,
see ....)



>
>> 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 for the clarification.


> Thanks,
> David
>
>