Re: Ben Campbell's Discuss on draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint-active-tail-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>]

Hi Ben,
thank you for the review and your comments. Please find my answers in-line
tagged GIM>>.

Regards,
Greg

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Ben Campbell <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> This is a process discuss:
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> If I read things correctly, this draft purports to update an _unpublished_
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GIM>> In the Introduction we've stated:
   This application of BFD is an extension to Multipoint BFD
   [I-D.ietf-bfd-multipoint].
I believe that the only way to avoid that is to merge the two
specifications.

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> Assuming this progresses mostly as-is, please mention the update in the
> abstract, and put a sentence or two in the introduction to give a high
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> summary of what the update actually is.
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GIM>> Please consider the following updates:
Abstract
NEW TEXT:
    This document updates draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint.

Introduction
OLD TEXT:
   This application of BFD is an extension to Multipoint BFD
   [I-D.ietf-bfd-multipoint], which allows tails to notify the head of
   the lack of multipoint connectivity.  As a further option, heads can
   request a notification from the tails by means of a polling
   mechanism.  Notification to the head can be enabled for all tails, or
   for only a subset of the tails.
NEW TEXT:
   This application of BFD is an extension to Multipoint BFD
   [I-D.ietf-bfd-multipoint], which allows tails to notify the head of
   the lack of multipoint connectivity.  As a further option, heads can
   request a notification from the tails by means of a polling
   mechanism.  Notification to the head can be enabled for all tails, or
   for only a subset of the tails.  In order to achieve that, among
   several updates to [I-D.ietf-bfd-multipoint], the new state variables
   and new values for existing variables has been added.

Hope these address your comments.

Regards,
Greg