Re: [Rmt] AD comments on draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-04

Thanks Mark!

Brian Adamson
adamson@itd.nrl.navy.mil

On Jul 12, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Mark Watson wrote:

> I propose to address item 3 by changing the SHOULDs to MUSTs. The  
> other
> comments all seem fine to me and I will submit an update shortly.
>
> ...Mark
>
>
> On 4/18/08 2:52 AM, "Magnus Westerlund" <magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com 
> >
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have made my AD review of the document and have the following  
>> comments.
>>
>> 1. Obsolete information in header, abstract and introduction. If I
>> understand this correctly this document will replace RFC 3695 and  
>> parts
>> of RFC 3452 that wasn't included in the already obsoleted one.
>>
>> 2. There is a missing "." in the last sentence of section 1.
>>
>> 3. Section 3.2.2.2:
>>
>> "   The "Reserved" field in the Encoded FEC Object Transmission
>>    Information SHOULD be set to zero by senders and its value  
>> SHOULD be
>>    ignored by receivers."
>>
>> Using the definition of SHOULD here makes it pretty difficult to use
>> this field in the future. I normally recommends that at least  
>> setting it
>> needs to be MUST and usually also the ignore on receiver. So that  
>> if one
>> deploys a new spec that uses these bits would not throw up on them.  
>> As I
>> am uncertain how widely deployed this definition already is I only  
>> ask
>> the WG to consider if this should be changed or not.
>>
>> 4. Section 5.3:
>>
>> I think there needs to be an additional sentence her to specify  
>> that if
>> a instance is not using the algorithm it needs to specify what it  
>> uses.
>>
>> 5. Section 9. I think we need to move the registry rules forward from
>> the going to be obsoleted RFCs 3695 and 3452. Thus please include the
>> registry rules in this section and request that IANA changes the
>> pointers for the rules to this doc.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Magnus Westerlund
>>
>> IETF Transport Area Director & TSVWG Chair
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