Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-17.txt> (Minimal 6TiSCH Configuration) to Best Current Practice
Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com> Fri, 23 December 2016 18:53 UTC
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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-17.txt> (Minimal 6TiSCH Configuration) to Best Current Practice
From: Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com>
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My review of draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-17 is included below. I recognize that the IETF last call has ended, and I apologize for missing the deadline. I hope this review will still be useful. In my opinion, draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-17 has several major issues and is not ready for publication. Most importantly, this document needs to explain its intended use. From the Abstract: "This document describes a minimal mode of operation for a 6TiSCH Network." Exactly what is a "minimal mode of operation"? Is the document intended to describe: 1) a starting point for design and deployment of a "6TiSCH network"? 2) a baseline set of required protocols and modes of operation, which will be extended by future specifications (as suggested in section 1)? 3) initial behavior that will guarantee out of the box interoperability among devices from, say, different vendors? 4) something else? As an example, if I were reading the document for point 1, I can see the value of pointing out, as in this rev of the document, various operational choices. However, if I were reading the document for point 3, I don't see how interoperability can be guaranteed given the variety of specific choices a vendor might make in the production of a device. Major issues regarding the document as a whole: If this document is concerned with "IPv6 connectivity", why is there no mention of address selection, prefix advertisement, use of ND, etc.? Similarly, why is there no advice about 6LoWPAN compression modes? What is the relationship between the recommended configuration in this document and protocol semantics that provide the same configuration parameters? For example, there are operational parameters provided in EBs that are also specified in this document. How does a node choose which parameters to use? A document such as this one that specifies the use of protocols specified elsewhere should use pointers to the other specifications wherever possible and should avoid repeating a description of those other protocols. The danger is getting the specifications out of sync or describing them in a misleading or incorrect way. In the case of this document, in my opinion there is text that repeats the description of aspects of the IEEE 802.15.4 and RPL specifications that should be elided. For example, section 4.2 and 4.3 describe details of cell transmission that appear to be redundant relative to the IEEE 802.15.4 specification. Specific issues: From the Introduction: "a node learns the schedule of the network when joining, the schedule is static and the same for all nodes". This statement of operational behavior seems important. How does a node learn the schedule? Is it up to the network administrator to configure all the nodes so that the schedule is "static and the same for all nodes"? What happens if different nodes advertise different schedules (or other operational parameters) in EBs? Is that situation considered an administrative error? In a related issue, I found the text in section 4.1 about future use of unscheduled cells confusing, after the assertion that "There is only a single scheduled cell in the slotframe". Similarly, in section 4.2, if the schedule is static, why is it necessary to state that "The scheduled cell... cannot be moved or relocated by any dynamic scheduling mechanism"? Section 4.4 seems to me to be a rewording of the IEEE 802.15.4 specification. Is there some specific reason that the text is included here? In section 5.1.1, the description of ETX computation "ETX is computed using the reception/non-reception of link-layer ACKs" doesn't seem to give enough information, while RFC 6551 specifically "does not mandate the use of a specific formula to compute the ETX value". RFC 6551 describes ETX as a constraint or as a path metric; in the latter case, ETX is cumulative from the node to the DAG root. How is ETX computed for this application? In section 5.2, what does the word "supported" mean? Which mode of operation should be implemented according to this specification? I don't understand the relation between sections 6.2, "Initial Time Source Neighbor Selection", 6.4, "Time Source Neighbor Selection" and section 6.5, "Hysteresis". In particular, section 6.4 seems to give only a requirement that a node must have a selected time source neighbor, but gives no advice on how the node makes the selection. Editorial issues: In the Introduction, why is RPL called out specifically as a "natural choice" without any justification? Why not just give the explicit explanation that RPL is specified to provide the framework for IEEE802.15.4 time sync? Check for consistency of parameter names and protocol fields; e.g., I assume macTsRxAckDelay and tsRxAckDelay refer to the same information element. In section 4.1, this instance of "MAY" is not an RFC 2119 usage: "Dynamic scheduling solutions MAY be defined in the future [...]" In section 4.5.1, the first and third sentences seem to be redundant.
- Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-17.txt> (Mi… Dale R. Worley
- Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-17.txt>… Ralph Droms
- Re: [6tisch] Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minima… Xavier Vilajosana
- Re: [6tisch] Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minima… Ralph Droms
- Re: [6tisch] Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minima… Ralph Droms
- Re: [6tisch] Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minima… Xavi Vilajosana Guillen
- Re: [6tisch] Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minima… Ralph Droms
- Re: [6tisch] Last Call: <draft-ietf-6tisch-minima… Tero Kivinen