[trill] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-directory-assist-mechanisms-11: (with COMMENT)

"Spencer Dawkins" <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 16 January 2017 23:04 UTC

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Spencer Dawkins has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-trill-directory-assist-mechanisms-11: No Objection

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In this text,

      It might learn that information from
      the directory or could query the directory if it does not know.

is "learning information from the directory" different from "querying the
directory"? My apologies for not knowing TRILL well.

I found this text,

     A Push Directory also advertises whether or not it
     believes it has pushed complete mapping information for a Data
Label.

to be odd ("directories believe things?"), and I'm wondering what that
belief would be based on. If a Push Directory has pushed all the
information it's currently storing, is that what's being described here?
Or does this mean something else?

In section 2.3.1, there are several states that refer to "enough time for
propagation" - for example,

   Active Completing <S4>:  Same behavior as the Active state except
      that the server responds differently to events. The purpose of
      this state is to be sure there has been enough time for directory
      information to propagate to subscribing edge TRILL switches
before
      the Directory Server advertises that the information is complete.

Is it possible to provide a pointer or reference that describes how
"enough time" is calculated? I'm not sure whether this is referring to
PushDirTimer in Section 2.7 or something else.

It's a nit, but I think this text,

      TRILL switches, whether or not they are a Push Directory server, 

should be something like

      TRILL switches, whether or not they are Push Directory servers, 

- there's a numbering mismatch.

I think this text,

   Thus, there is commonly a
   small window during which the an RBridge using directory information
   might either (1) drop or unnecessarily flood a frame as having an
   unknown unicast destination or (2) encapsulate a frame to an edge
   RBridge where the end station is not longer connected when the frame
   arrives at that edge RBridge.

is garbled (somewhere around "during which the an RBridge").

In this text,

   Support of TRILL ES-IS is generally optional for both the TRILL
   switches and the end stations on a link but may be required to
   support certain features.

can you give any guidance to the reader on how to know whether TRILL
ES-IS support is required for a feature?