Re: [trill] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-rfc6439bis-04: (with COMMENT)

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Tue, 17 January 2017 14:22 UTC

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From: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:21:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: [trill] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-rfc6439bis-04: (with COMMENT)
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Hi Spencer,

Thanks for the comments. See below

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Spencer Dawkins
<spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Spencer Dawkins has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-trill-rfc6439bis-04: No Objection
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I had trouble parsing "output it to or queue it for" (this occurs twice
> in the sentence).
>
>    However, it does not output it to or queue it for that link,
>    although, if appropriate (for example, the frame is multi-
>    destination), it may output it to or queue it for other links.

It's kind of verbose but I believe that actual output port
implementations typically provide for directly streaming out a packet
even as other parts of the packet are still arriving at the switch,
particularly in cut-through routing, or just sticking it in a queue
for output later if the port is busy. Do you have any suggestion for
better wording?

> I don't think the text is incorrect, just awkward. Perhaps commas would
> help?
>
> In these three subsection titles,
>
>    3.2.1 Change Optimization One
>
>    3.2.2 Change Optimization Two
>
>    3.2.3 Settling Detection Optimization
>
> I found the title for 3.2.3 helpful, but not 3.2.1 or 3.2.2. Is it
> possible to come up with more descriptive titles?

That's a reasonable point. Maybe

   3.2.1 Optimization for Change to Lower Priority

   3.2.2 Optimization for Change to Priority Only


> I found
>
>    For robustness, a TRILL switch sends a number of copies of a Port-
>    Shutdown messages configurable from one to three, which defaults to
>    two copies, at a configurable interval, which defaults to 20
>    milliseconds (see Section 6.6).
>
> difficult to parse. Perhaps
>
>    For robustness, a TRILL switch sends a configurable number of copies
>    of Port-Shutdown messages separated by a configurable interval. The
> default
>    number of copies is two, although this can be configured as one copy
>    or as three copies, and the default interval is 20 milliseconds
>    (see Section 6.6).
>
> ?

Sure, that seems like an improvement. Might also be good to say "time
interval" instead of just "interval".

Thanks,
Donald
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