Re: [trill] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-irb-13: (with COMMENT)

Mirja Kühlewind <ietf@kuehlewind.net> Tue, 05 July 2016 13:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [trill] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-irb-13: (with COMMENT)
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Thanks! I had a quick look and this looks good to me. Also on the 2. point 
below, I know understand why there is a SHOULD; you potentially could add one 
more sentence to explain why this is a SHOULD. But I leave this on you.

Mirja


On 05.07.2016 15:35, Donald Eastlake wrote:
> Hi Mirja,
>
> A -14 version has been uploaded that is intended to resolve your comment.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
> ===============================
>   Donald E. Eastlake 3rd   +1-508-333-2270 (cell)
>   155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA
>   d3e3e3@gmail.com
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mirja,
>>
>> Thanks for your comments. See below.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Mirja Kuehlewind <ietf@kuehlewind.net> wrote:
>>> Mirja Kühlewind has entered the following ballot position for
>>> draft-ietf-trill-irb-13: No Objection
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> COMMENT:
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Two minor comments:
>>>
>>> 1) There are only a few SHOULDs and MUSTs in this whole document
>>>     and where they are used it is often not very clear what the action
>>>     is that should follow and how it should be implemented
>>>    (e.g. "The network operator MUST ensure the consistency of the
>>>     tenant ID on each edge RBridge for each routing domain.").
>>>    And maybe there are actually more case where normative
>>>    language should be used?
>>>    Please double-check the use of normative language in this document!
>>
>> OK.
>>
>>>   2) A similar question on the following part:
>>>    „If a tenant is deleted on an edge RBridge RB1, RB1 SHOULD re-
>>>     advertise the local tenant Data Label, tenant gateway MAC, and
>>>     related IP prefixes information of the rest tenants to other edge
>>>     RBridges. […] Therefore the transient routes consistency won't
>>>    cause issues other than wasting some network bandwidth.“
>>>    Wasting network resources actually can be an issue.
>>>    So why is this not an MUST?
>>
>> Wasting bandwidth can be an issue but is not necessarily an issue,
>> particularly if it occurs only during a brief transient period. TRILL
>> does not make it mandatory to implement with the maximum link
>> utilization efficiency. For example, TRILL multi-destination traffic
>> is send over a distribution tree. If there are no devices interested
>> in traffic in a particular VLAN further down a branch of the tree, it
>> is recommended that traffic heading down that branch be pruned. But
>> this is not mandatory. The TRILL campus will operate "correctly"
>> without such pruning and if someone wants to make a very simple, low
>> end implementation without pruning, so be it. (As far as I know, all
>> existing TRILL implementation do prune distribution trees.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Donald
>> ===============================
>>   Donald E. Eastlake 3rd   +1-508-333-2270 (cell)
>>   155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA
>>   d3e3e3@gmail.com
>