[tcpm] Comments draft-ietf-tcpm-rtorestart-06.txt

Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Thu, 09 April 2015 15:17 UTC

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A few quick comments on this latest revision:

* I believe this is a sender-side only change, but the abstract doesn't 
explicitly say this, i.e. "This document specifies a sender-only 
modification to TCP and SCTP "

* The introduction does not explain why the WG has requested this to be 
experimental (is it the maturity or options of the algorithm; deployment 
experience; etc), e.g. "The specification in this draft is classified as 
"Experimental" pending experience with deployed implementations of the 
methods."

* Section 4 specifies the experimental algorithm, it may be useful to 
add a sentence at the start of this section that explicitly says this 
"This section specifies the modifications required", to contrast with 
the informative material in section 3,5,6.

* I have reviewed section 7, and this seems to me to address the 
SCTP-related comments received at the Dallas IETF meeting.

* To avoid doubt by security reviewers, You could possibly also note 
this in the security considerations section:  i.e. "This document 
specifies an experimental sender-only modification to TCP and SCTP."

Gorry