Re: [pim] [Last-Call] Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-pim-drlb-13

Hi

Thanks for the review, I updated the terms as you suggested in the
latest version.

Stig

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:48 AM Michael Scharf via Datatracker
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> Reviewer: Michael Scharf
> Review result: Ready
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> As far as I can see there are no fundamental transport-related issues in this
> document. All in all, the impact of selecting a Group Designated Router may be
> quite similar to the existing PIM-SM selection of a Designated Router.
>
> A little bit of wordsmithing: In Section 6, it could be useful to replace the
> term "enough total capacity" by another term, such as "enough available
> capacity" or "enough spare capacity". The router links can obviously also carry
> other, non-PIM traffic. Then there must be enough available bandwidth left for
> the PIM traffic on top of non-PIM traffic. The term "total capacity" is a bit
> vague; it could possibly refer to the physical link capacity (e.g., 1 Gbit/s
> for Gigabit Ethernet). Only considering the physical link capacity would not be
> correct. Actually, one could write more about the traffic engineering aspects
> of GDR selection, e.g., whether it is realistic that traffic distribution is
> really equal. Yet, given that there seems to be only one implementation
> according to the shepherd write-up, just changing the term may be sufficient.
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