[RTG-DIR] Subject: RtgDir Early review: draft-ietf-alto-new-transport-07

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Hello

I have been selected to do a routing directorate “early” review of this 
draft.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-alto-new-transport/

The routing directorate will, on request from the working group chair, 
perform an “early” review of a draft before it is submitted for 
publication to the IESG. The early review can be performed at any time 
during the draft’s lifetime as a working group document. The purpose of 
the early review depends on the stage that the document has reached.

As this document is in working group last call, my focus for the review 
was to determine whether the document is ready to be published. Please 
consider my comments along with the other working group last call 
comments.

For more information about the Routing Directorate, please see 
​http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/rtg/trac/wiki/RtgDir

Document: draft-ietf-alto-new-transport-07
Reviewer: Russ White
Review Date: 30 March 2023
Intended Status: Standards

Summary:

This document is basically ready for publication, but has nits that 
should be considered prior to being submitted to the IESG.

Comments:

This draft covers a complex protocol and use cases. I had to go back and 
read the previous drafts and other documents to get a good perspective 
on these use cases. Given the inherent complexity, this draft is well 
written, and gives good explanations of the solution proposed. The 
example given towards the beginning of the document was very helpful.

Nits:

This document assumes data will be pushed in the correct order, but it 
doesn't seem to say this is a requirement. Since the document is dealing 
with changes to a network topology (for instance), it seems like this 
would be a requirement to mention someplace. It could be that I missed 
this requirement, however.