Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-optimization-03.txt> (An Optimization for the MANET Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP)) to Proposed Standard

[Abdussalam Baryun <[e-mail]>]

The optimisation is only when there is link quality, the link quality is
optional use within our standard RFC7181, so this proposal updates the 7181
while it uses the optional link quality feature.

AB

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Adrian Farrel
> > AB
> >> 2- The draft mentions in the introduction:- This modification is
> >> strictly optional,
> > >
> >> [AB] the reviewer suggests to include in the ID-Abstract that this
> >> standard is optional. It is not enough to only mention in the
> >> introduction such important information.
>
> > Good point.
>
> The abstract does actually say "to permit", which indicates this is not
> mandatory. But we can add the word optional to that.
>
> Regarding the title, there's a usual tradeoff between brevity (and it's
> already not brief) and detail. I wouldn't add the suggests "based on link
> quality" as that really adds nothing useful (it's not an optimisation based
> on link quality, it's an optimisation to remove a side-effect of the use of
> link quality). To be a useful lengthening of the title, it would, I think,
> have to mention something about the two hop neighbourhood. I haven't
> consulted with my co-author, but my proposal would be to see if anyone on
> the IESG has a problem with the title as-is.
>
> --
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