Deborah Brungard's Discuss on draft-ietf-rtgwg-backoff-algo-07: (with DISCUSS)

[Deborah Brungard <[e-mail]>]

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DISCUSS:
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While I agree with Alvaro's concerns, my concern is the appropriateness of this document as PS.
This document should have a similar status as RFC6976 (Informational) which also provided a
mechanism that prevented transient loops saying "the mechanisms described in this
document are purely illustrative of the general approach and do not constitute a protocol
specification". Especially as this document compares itself to RFC6976, saying RFC6976 is a
"full solution".

With a change of status to Informational, this document would be better
scoped as providing guidance vs. a specification.