Re: [mpls] Review of draft-ietf-mpls-residence-time-12

Greg Mirsky <gregimirsky@gmail.com> Fri, 13 January 2017 18:12 UTC

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Hi Jurgen,
thank you for the thorough review and the most detailed and helpful
comments.
We're preparing -13 version and will address your comments promptly. Please
find my responses in-lined and tagged GIM>>.

Regards,
Greg

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:47 AM, <"Jürgen Schönwälder
<j.schoenwaelder@jac"@ietfa.amsl.com> wrote:

> Reviewer: Jürgen Schönwälder
> Review result: Has Nits
>
> I do not see any major OPS related issues. I am not an MPLS expert
> and
> this will likely show in my comments. Most of my comments below are
> editorial or trying to make the document easier to read for first
> time
> readers not deeply involved in the work.
>
> - Consider to avoid acronyms in the Abstract. I had to lookup what
>   G-ACh and PTP resolve to in order to read the abstract, which I
>   think should be avoided.
>
GIM>> Will use full versions in the Abstract.

>
> - The sentence starting 'I.e.' in parenthesis in the Introduction
>   almost reads like a definition of Residence Time. Is it useful to
>   have this sentence in parenthesis and starting with 'I.e.'? It
> would
>   be nice to have a clear definition of Residence Time. In fact, my
>   reading is that residence time sometimes refers to the per hop
>   residence them and sometimes to the accumulated per path residence
>   time. Does it make sense to distinguish a Node Residence Time from
> a
>   Path Residence Time? Or a Residence Time from an Accumulated
>   Residence Time?
>
GIM>> Perhaps if parenthesis removed and the sentence starts with
"Residence Time can be calculated as the sum ..."

>
> - While reading section 3, I was wondering what are 1-step nodes and
>   what are 2-step nodes? This is later explained in detail inq
> section
>   7. Perhaps it makes sense to introduce the concept earlier and to
>   provide a forward pointer to section 7 for the details.
>
GIM>> Will try to re-arrange the text to make the flow more logical.

>
> - I suggest to either always write one-step and two-step or 1-step
> and
>   2-step. Mixing writing styles makes searching in the text a bit
> more
>   complicated.
>
GIM>> Will pick and use one form throughout the document.

>
> - The document seems to be PTP specific even though there are
>   provisions to support other time synchronization protocols. I
>   wonder, though, to what extend this would work for lets say NTP.
>   There is quite some text refering to the correctionField, which
>   seems to be a PTP-specific field.
>
GIM>> Yes, NTP doesn't use residence time and thus no need for
correctionField. We assume that there may be interest in using RT by NTP at
some time.

>
> - s/Scratch Pad filed/Scratch Pad field/
>
GIM>> Great catch, thank you!

>
> - Does the Interface ID related to other interface numbers, e.g.,
>   SNMP's ifIndex? Or is this an entirely separate number space? Or
>   does it depend on the implementor's choice?
>
GIM>> This comes from PTP. AFAIK, it is different from SNMP index.

>
> - In section 7, enumerated item 1, there is a hanging open
> parenthesis
>   which seem to have to sub-items inside. I suggest to change this by
>   s/forthcoming (this/forthcoming. This/
>
GIM>> Accepted, thank you.

>
> - In section 8.3: s/.  .  /.  /
>
GIM>> Done

>
> - It may be useful to add instructions that the RFC editor is
> expected
>   to replace TBAx in the text once IANA has done the assignments.
>
> - What does 'particularly as applied to use related to PTP' mean?
>
GIM>> My interpretation would be "when used to measure the residence time
on behalf of PTP"