Re: [Pce] Clarification regarding draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-ipv6-11/RFC8664

Mrinmoy Das <mrinmoy.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 07 February 2022 10:18 UTC

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From: Mrinmoy Das <mrinmoy.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:48:04 +0530
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Subject: Re: [Pce] Clarification regarding draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-ipv6-11/RFC8664
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Thanks Dhruv for the information.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 4:08 PM Dhruv Dhody <dd@dhruvdhody.com> wrote:

> Hi Mrinmoy,
>
> You are correct. There was a recent errata on RFC 8664 regarding this
> issue - https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6753
>
> The authors of draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-ipv6 should also fix this
> issue in their draft. Thanks for noticing it.
>
> Thanks!
> Dhruv
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 4:01 PM Mrinmoy Das <mrinmoy.ietf@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Team,
>>
>> I have a doubt regarding below section of the above draft:
>>
>> 4.3.1 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-ipv6-11#section-4.3.1>.  SRv6-ERO Subobject
>>
>>
>> NAI Type (NT): Indicates the type and format of the NAI contained in
>>    the object body, if any is present.  If the F bit is set to zero (see
>>    below) then the NT field has no meaning and MUST be ignored by the
>>    receiver.  This document reuses NT types defined in [RFC8664 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8664>]:
>>
>> It seems above highlighted line indicates that if F bit is set to 0 then
>> NT field MUST be ignored
>>
>> by the receiver, whereas it should be completely opposite as per below definition of F bit
>>
>> from the same draft:
>>
>>
>>   F: When this bit is set to 1, the NAI value in the subobject body
>>       is absent.  The F bit MUST be set to 1 if NT=0, and otherwise MUST
>>       be set to zero.  The S and F bits MUST NOT both be set to 1.
>>
>>
>> So, I think the above highlighted line needs correction. As NT type
>> refers to RFC8664, I found
>>
>> the same mistakes over there as well.
>>
>> 4.3.1 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8664#section-4.3.1>.  SR-ERO Subobject
>>
>> NAI Type (NT):  Indicates the type and format of the NAI contained in
>>       the object body, if any is present.  If the F bit is set to zero
>>       (see below), then the NT field has no meaning and MUST be ignored
>>       by the receiver.  This document describes the following NT values:
>>
>> Please let me know if you think differently.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mrinmoy
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