Re: [PCN] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5559 (3164)

["Bradner, Scott" <[e-mail]>]

this looks correct to me and I think it should be accepted

Scott

On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:53 PM, RFC Errata System wrote:

> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5559,
> "Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Architecture".
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=5559&eid=3164
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Bob Briscoe <[e-mail]>
> 
> Section: 4.2
> 
> Original Text
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>   o  Police - police, by dropping any packets received with a DSCP
>      indicating PCN transport that do not belong to an admitted flow.
>      (A prospective PCN-flow that is rejected could be blocked or
>      admitted into a lower-priority behaviour aggregate.)
> 
> 
> Corrected Text
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>   o  Police - drop or re-mark to a lower-priority behaviour aggregate
>      i) packets received with a DSCP indicating PCN transport that do not
>      belong to an admitted flow and ii) packets that are part of a flow
>      that asked to be admitted as a PCN-flow but was rejected.
> 
> 
> Notes
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> In the original text the first sentence contradicts the parenthesis. It could be interpreted to mean that dropping is the only allowed policing action, whereas the parenthesis shows that downgrading was also considered appropriate.
> 
> Also the original text used the term 'blocking' as a different action to 'downgrading', whereas Section 3.6 just above this text has said '"Blocking" means it is dropped or downgraded to a lower-priority behaviour aggregate,...'
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> RFC5559 (draft-ietf-pcn-architecture-11)
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> Title               : Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Architecture
> Publication Date    : June 2009
> Author(s)           : P. Eardley, Ed.
> Category            : INFORMATIONAL
> Source              : Congestion and Pre-Congestion Notification
> Area                : Transport
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG