[rmcat] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-criteria-12: (with COMMENT)

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Subject: [rmcat] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-criteria-12: (with COMMENT)
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Benjamin Kaduk has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-criteria-12: No Objection

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Section 1

   media flow's throughput.  Furthermore, the proposed algorithms are
   expected to operate within the envelope of the circuit breakers
   defined in RFC8083 [RFC8083].

The "proposed algorithms" are the congestion-control schemes, not the
evaluation procedures, right?

Section 3.1

   If the congestion control implements, retransmissions or FEC, the

nit: no comma (first one)

Section 4.4

It's too bad that we don't have more specific guidance to give on loss
generation modeling.

Section 4.5.1

   path.  Due to this, if a packet becomes overly delayed, the packets
   after it on that flow are also delayed.  This is especially true for

Doesn't this imply that the real PDV data poitns are not independent and
that we should expect simple PDF modeling to produce inaccurate or
unphysical results?