[Isis-wg] Jari Arkko's Discuss on draft-ietf-isis-node-admin-tag-10: (with DISCUSS)

["Jari Arkko" <[e-mail]>]

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DISCUSS:
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Peter Yee's Gen-ART review raised this issue which I agree with. Can this
be defined in a more clear fashion? Or is there already a definition
somewhere else that I had not seen?

Page 5, section 4.2, 2nd paragraph, 1st sentence: The sentence states:
"Being part of the Router CAPABILITY TLV, the node administrative tag
sub-TLV MUST be reasonably small and stable."  If you're going to make
this
a MUST, you've got to at least give a definition of "reasonably small"
and
perhaps even "stable" in the context of this specification.  As it
stands,
there's no test for whether the MUST is enforceable or understandable
between parties.