Re: [Isis-wg] WG review of draft-ietf-ccamp-automesh-01.txt beforeCCAMP LC

Hi Les,

Thanks for your comments - see in line,

On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Les Ginsberg ((ginsberg)) wrote:

> Several Issues:
>
> 1)It seems clear that the sections relating to IS-IS need revision  
> on at
> least one fundamental issue. The text refers to "TLV" - but in fact  
> the
> mesh group information will be a sub-TLV carried inside the proposed
> capabilities TLV. This affects the wording in a number of places. I
> leave it to the authors to provide a revision.

Done.

>
> 2)As to the actual "sub-TLV format" described in Section 4.2:
>
> a)I am wondering what the value of the "name_length" byte is? Given  
> that
> there is a sub-TLV length why do we need this byte?
>

Because you may have multiple TE mesh-group advertise in the same TE- 
MESH-GROUP TLV.
I'll clarify that a single TE-MESH-GROUP TLV may carry more than one  
group of entries where an entry correspond to a TE mesh-group,

> b)The tail-end name is specified to require a NULL terminator. This is
> unnecessary, because of the sub-TLV length. It also differs in format
> from the format used for hostnames in RFC 2763 - which is specified to
> NOT include the NULL terminator. Was any consideration given to
> consistency?
>

Good point indeed, the NULL terminator can indeed be removed. This is  
fixed, thanks.

> 3)I would also prefer in Section 5.2 where there is a discussion of
> flooding scope, that rather than specify the settings of specific bits
> (the S bit in this case) that the document simply refer to the IS-IS
> Capabilities draft and indicate that the procedures specified therein
> MUST be followed. This will avoid any possible ambiguity as to whether
> both documents describe the same behavior.
>

Well I'd prefer to keep it to show how these bits should be set in  
that particular context.

Thanks.

JP.

>    Les
>
>
>
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>> Subject: [Isis-wg] WG review of draft-ietf-ccamp-automesh-01.txt
>> beforeCCAMP LC
>>
>> All -
>>
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>> the
>> document.
>>
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