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

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 08 January 2018 14:13 UTC

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Subject: [trill] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-centralized-replication-12: (with COMMENT)
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Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-trill-centralized-replication-12: No Objection

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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"



7. Centralized replication forwarding process
This diagram would be helpful earlier



                     *   ----------*-------------*--    ^
                     ***************************** |     ^
              LAALP1 *                      LAALP2 |      ^
What are the asterisks?



   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)"



            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