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Re: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-6man-rfc4941bis-03.txt

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 24 October 2019 11:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-6man-rfc4941bis-03.txt
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, 6man <ipv6@ietf.org>
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Hello, Brian,

Thanks so much for the feedback! In-line...

On 23/10/19 14:20, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are a few comments on this draft that I should have sent to the list
> some time ago. If this was a Gen-ART review I'd say "Ready with nits".
> 
>>    The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
>>    "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
>>    document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
> 
> I don't care, but somebody will insist on the new boilerplate mentioning [RFC8174].

Will do -- I wasn't aware about this update to RFC2119 (!).



>>    The term "global scope addresses" is used in this document to
>>    collectively refer to "Global unicast addresses" as defined in
>>    [RFC4291] and "Unique local addresses" as defined in [RFC4193].
> 
> ....and not to "globally reachable" as defined in [RFC8190].
> 
>>    2.  The Interface Identifier is obtained by taking as many bits from
>>        the aforementioned random number (obtained in the previous step)
>>        as necessary.
> 
> Maybe worth repeating that there are no special bits in an IID [RFC7136].

Both comments make sense. I will apply them in the next rev, unless the
wg argues otherwise.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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