[pim] Re: Genart early review of draft-ietf-pim-3228bis-05

[Brian Haberman <[e-mail]>]

Thanks, Elwyn!

These suggestions all make sense to me.

Regards,
Brian

On 6/6/24 2:11 PM, Elwyn Davies via Datatracker wrote:
> Reviewer: Elwyn Davies
> Review result: Ready with Nits
> 
> Gen-Art Early review of draft-ietf-pim-3228bis-05
> 
> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this early review of this draft.
> The General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being
> processed by the IESG for the IETF Chair.
> 
> Summary:  This is a simple update of the IANA allocation processes for a small
> number of fields in the IGMP and MLD protocols previously mostly covered by RFC
> 3228 and provides unification of processes for the IPv4 and IPv6 versions of
> the protocols dealing with multicast listener discovery.  The document is ready
> for last call except for a couple of minor nits.
> 
> Major Issues:
> None
> 
> Minor Issues:
> s6.1:  Given that this document will obsolete RFC 3228 and incorporates the
> whole function of RFC 3228, I do not think the RFC 3228 should be normative and
> should be relegated to Informative.
> 
> Nits and Editorial Comments:
> Abstract and s1:
> I suggest:
> OLD:
> This document obsoletes [RFC3228].
> NEW:
> This document obsoletes [RFC3228] and unifies guidelines for IPv4 and IPv6
> protocols. ENDS
> 
> s2.3: The comment from s2.2:
>     The initial contents of this requested registry should contain the
>     E-bit defined in [RFC9279].
> should be duplicated in s2.3.
> 
> 
>