Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2-15.txt> (The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2) to Proposed Standard

[Abdussalam Baryun <[e-mail]>]

Reply to your request dated 29/08/2012

Draft Reviewed By: Abdussalam Baryun (AB)    Dated:22/08/2012

Reviewer Comment  AB2:  Related to OLSRv2 Packets.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

-The reviewer is not sure how/when the OLSRv2 generates packets
[RFC5444] or how it puts information in the packet. The I-D refers
back to the RFC5444 document but the document is a general
specification for all MANET routers, the reviewer thinks it is
important that OLSRv2-draft mentions what/how the OLSRv2 node puts
information in RFC5444 header or how a node uses the header
information.

-In OLSRv2-draft section 13.2 > This specification does not define or
use any contents of the Packet Header.
The reviewer does not know why the router generates the packet and
does not use, or the reviewer does not know who generates it.

-RFC5444 specifies that IANA is registering namespaces for: Message
Types, Packet TLV Types, Message TLV Types, and Address Block TLV
Types.
OLSRv2-draft IANA consideration section does not mention any assign
for packet header related to OLSRv2 as in RFC5444 section 6.3 (e.g.
Packet TLV Types).

Regards
AB
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On 7/29/12, The IESG <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> The IESG has received a request from the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks WG
> (manet) to consider the following document:
> - 'The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2'
>   <draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2-15.txt> as Proposed Standard
>
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> [e-mail] mailing lists by 2012-08-22. Exceptionally, comments may be
> sent to [e-mail] instead. In either case, please retain the
> beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. This last call
> period has been extended to handle the fact that it spans the IETF-84
> meeting.
>
> This last call is being re-initiated to include a notice that this document
> includes a normative down reference to an Informational RFC:
> RFC5148, "Jitter considerations in MANETs".
>
> Abstract
>
>    This specification describes version 2 of the Optimized Link State
>    Routing (OLSRv2) protocol for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs).
>
> The file can be obtained via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2/
>
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2/ballot/
>
>
> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
>