Re: Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-6man-grand-06: (with COMMENT)

[Jen Linkova <[e-mail]>]

Hi Robert,

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 6:25 PM Robert Wilton via Datatracker
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> (1) I wasn't really familiar with the term "off-link" and I was wondering
> whether it's definition should be imported here, although I note that ND does
> define and use this term, so readers familiar with the ND RFC would presumably
> be familiar with it.

Yes,  the idea of off-link and on-link addresses/communication is kind
of fundamental for ND.
I'll add the following text to the Terminology section:
"On-link address: an address that is assigned to an interface on a
specified link. See Section 2.1 of [RFC4861] for detailed definition.
Off-link: the opposite of "on-link". See Section 2.1 of [RFC4861] for
detailed definition."

Would it make it better?

> (2) I actually found the normative text updating RFC4861 in section 6.1.1 to
> not be that readable, and I had to scan it a couple of times to spot the
> distinction between router and host.  Possibly laying out the text slightly
> differently would make the distinction between host and router behaviour more
> obvious.  E.g.,
>
>    When a valid Neighbor Advertisement is received (either solicited or
>    unsolicited), the Neighbor Cache is searched for the target's entry.
>    If no entry exists:
>
>        Hosts SHOULD silently discard the advertisement.  There is no
>        need to create an entry if none exists, since the recipient has
>        apparently not initiated any communication with the target.
>
>        Routers SHOULD create a new entry for the target address with
>        the link-layer address set to the Target link-layer address
>        option (if supplied).  The entry's reachability state MUST be
>        set to STALE.  If the received Neighbor Advertisement does not
>        contain the Target link-layer address option the advertisement
>        SHOULD be silently discarded.

Done, -07 will have the updated text, thanks for the suggestion!

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SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry