Re: [Roll] Last Call: <draft-ietf-roll-terminology-12.txt> (Terminology in Low power And Lossy Networks) to Informational RFC

[SM <[e-mail]>]

At 10:17 16-03-2013, The IESG wrote:
>The IESG has received a request from the Routing Over Low power and Lossy
>networks WG (roll) to consider the following document:
>- 'Terminology in Low power And Lossy Networks'
>   <draft-ietf-roll-terminology-12.txt> as Informational RFC
>
>The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
>final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
>[e-mail] mailing lists by 2013-03-30. Exceptionally, comments may be

I took a quick look at the document.

In Section 2:

   "Thus in order to avoid confusion or discrepancies, this document
    specifies the common terminology to be used in all ROLL
    Working Group documents."

It may be better to define terminology for a technology and not for 
work within a working group only.

   "This document should be listed as an informative reference."

As the document defines terminology it might have to be a normative 
reference in other documents.  It's easier to leave it to document 
authors to determine whether the reference should be normative or informative.

In Section 2:

   'Downstream: Data direction traveling from outside of the LLN (e.g.
    traffic coming from a LAN, WAN or the Internet) via a LBR, or in
    general "deeper" in the Directed Acyclic Graph computed by the
    routing protocol.'

LBR is in the next paragraph.  There are other such cases in 
draft-ietf-roll-terminology-12.

  "Smart Grid: A Smart Grid is a broad class of applications to network
   and automate utility infrastructure."

I suggest running this definition through the Smart Power Directorate 
to avoid any conflicting definition in future.

Regards,
-sm