Re: [trill] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-centralized-replication-12: (with COMMENT)

[Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]>]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your comments.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-trill-centralized-replication-12: No Objection
>
> ...
>
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> COMMENT:
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>    if a triple of {ingress nickname, tree, receiving RBridge port} is
>    allowed. (The tree is indicted by the nickname of its root which is
>    stored in the TRILL Header "egress nickname" field.) When
> I think this probably should be "indicated"

Thanks, that was fixed in the -12 version.

> 7. Centralized replication forwarding process
> This diagram would be helpful earlier
>
>
>
>                      *   ----------*-------------*--    ^
>                      ***************************** |     ^
>               LAALP1 *                      LAALP2 |      ^
> What are the asterisks?

The asterisks are intended to show the connection of CE1 to RB1, RB2, and RB3.

>    equals (m mod k) as egress nickname for BUM traffic unicast TRILL
>    encapsulation.
> This text might be easier to read as:
>
> "For data label ID m, choose R-nickname = m mod k"
>
> The "equals" isn't that helpful here, but if you wanted to say it that way, you might try
> "choose the R-nickname n which is equal to m (mod k)"

Well, its not the R-nickname=m mod K but rather that, as stated in
point 1 immediately above the point 2 we are talking about, m mod k
give the number of the R-nickname in the ordered and numbered list.

Thanks,
Donald
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>             o C = If C flag is one, it indicates that the TRILL traffic
>    with this nickname as an ingress nickname that requires the special
> Nit: I would use ":" here instead of equals