[RTG-DIR] Rtgdir telechat review of draft-ietf-bier-te-arch-10

[Ines Robles via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Reviewer: Ines Robles
Review result: Has Nits

Hello,

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Document: draft-ietf-bier-te-arch-10
Reviewer: Maria Ines Robles
Review Date: 2021-08-24
IETF LC End Date: 2021-08-24
Intended Status: Standards Track

Summary:

This document describes per-packet stateless strict and loose path steered
replication and forwarding for Bit Index Explicit Replication packets
(RFC8279), BIER Tree Engineering (BIER-TE), intended to be used as the path
steering mechanism for Traffic Engineering with BIER. BIER-TE introduces a new
semantic for bit positions (BP) that indicate adjacencies.

This document is basically ready for publication. I have some minor
questions/comments.

Major Issues: No major issues found.

Minor Issues: No minor issues found.

Nits/Comments/Questions:

- Expand SI at first use --> Set Identifier (SI)?
- Expand SD at first use --> Sub Domain (SD)?

Page 7: Question, in the sentence: "...to send in addition to BFR6 via BFR4
also a copy to BFR3, the BitString needs to be (p2,p5,p8,p10,p12,p13)..." --> 
should it be added p15 as well, (p2,p5,p8,p10,p12,p13,P15) ?

Page 7: " many of which are based on assumptions..." --> it would be nice if
you could state examples of the assumptions, which assumptions?

Page 8: "BFR4 and from BFR4 to BFR uses (p1,p2,p3,p4,p6).  -->  BFR4 and from
BFR4 to BFR6 uses (p1,p2,p3,p4,p6).

Page 8: Question, in Figure 2,  You have p6 as forward_routed() to BFR6, and as
local_decap. Is this correct? Is this reuse of bit positions case?


Page 9: "...undesired duplicates or loops as explained further down in the
text."  --> (nice to reference the section where it is explained, Section 5.2)

Page 10: "See for example See Section 5.1.3...." --> delete the second See

Question: Is there specific security considerations when having overlay BIER-TE
topology?

Thank you for this document,

Ines.