Re: [tcpm] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-13.txt

[Greg Skinner <[e-mail]>]

I found a few items while referring to this draft.  I hope the feedback will be useful.

§3.4:

In the sentence "The principle reason for the three-way handshake is to prevent old duplicate connection initiations from causing confusion.” I believe the correct spelling should be “principal”, because it is being used as an adjective.  (More information is available from the definition of principal at wordreference.com <https://www.wordreference.com/definition/principal>.) 

§3.8.6:

The phrase “robustness principle” is used, but not cited.  While most readers of the draft probably know what it is, others may not.  IMO, a citation would be helpful, either from references already in the draft (RFCs 791, 793), or others such as RFC 1958, §3.
 
§7:

s/alphebetically/alphabetically/

BR, Greg

> On Jun 3, 2019, at 6:25 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions WG of the IETF.
> 
>        Title           : Transmission Control Protocol Specification
>        Author          : Wesley M. Eddy
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-13.txt
> 	Pages           : 104
> 	Date            : 2019-06-03
> 
> Abstract:
>   This document specifies the Internet's Transmission Control Protocol
>   (TCP).  TCP is an important transport layer protocol in the Internet
>   stack, and has continuously evolved over decades of use and growth of
>   the Internet.  Over this time, a number of changes have been made to
>   TCP as it was specified in RFC 793, though these have only been
>   documented in a piecemeal fashion.  This document collects and brings
>   those changes together with the protocol specification from RFC 793.
>   This document obsoletes RFC 793, as well as 879, 2873, 6093, 6429,
>   6528, and 6691 that updated parts of RFC 793.  It updates RFC 1122,
>   and should be considered as a replacement for the portions of that
>   document dealing with TCP requirements.  It updates RFC 5961 due to a
>   small clarification in reset handling while in the SYN-RECEIVED
>   state.
> 
>   RFC EDITOR NOTE: If approved for publication as an RFC, this should
>   be marked additionally as "STD: 7" and replace RFC 793 in that role.
> 
> 
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