Multicast Router Discovery
draft-ietf-magma-mrdisc-07
Discuss
Yes
(Bill Fenner)
(Margaret Cullen)
No Objection
(Alex Zinin)
(Allison Mankin)
(Jon Peterson)
(Russ Housley)
(Sam Hartman)
(Scott Hollenbeck)
Note: This ballot was opened for revision 07 and is now closed.
Thomas Narten Former IESG member
Discuss
Discuss
[Treat as non-blocking comment]
(2005-02-25)
Unknown
> 1. For IPv4 it is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's > complement sum of the IGMP message, starting with the Type field. > For computing the checksum, the checksum field is set to 0. > Checksum does not include any IPv4 header fields. This seems like a bad design choice. Note that in the IPv6 case, the checksum does include a pseudo-header. Why not be consistent? > 1. The expiration of the periodic advertisement interval timer. > Note that it this timer is not strictly periodic since it is a > random number between MaxAdvertisementInterval and > MinAdvertisementInterval. this doesn't seem good. The spread between these values can be pretty wide, I think. What you want is an average value with some randomness to prevent syncrhonization. You don't want the value to be completely random between (say) 3 and 180 seconds.
Bill Fenner Former IESG member
Yes
Yes
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Margaret Cullen Former IESG member
Yes
Yes
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Alex Zinin Former IESG member
(was Discuss)
No Objection
No Objection
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Unknown
Allison Mankin Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Unknown
Bert Wijnen Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
(2004-12-02)
Unknown
!! Missing citation for Informative reference:
P016 L030: [14] Bradner, S., "Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology",
!! Missing citation for Informative reference:
P016 L034: [15] Daigle, L. and Internet Architecture Board, "IETF ISOC Board of
QUestion: is there a MIB doc (in development) for the management variables
listed in the subsections of sect 3?
Section "9 Authors" may be a bit confusing with the other heading "Authors' Addresses" further down
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Comment from OPSDIR (Pekka) review:
Nit:
Although MRD messages could be sent as ICMP messages, the group
management protocols were chosen since this functionality is
multicast specific.
Harald Alvestrand Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
(2004-12-01)
Unknown
Reviewed by Mary Barnes, Gen-ART Her review: Draft is ready for publication as Proposed Standard.
Jon Peterson Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Unknown
Russ Housley Former IESG member
(was Discuss)
No Objection
No Objection
()
Unknown
Sam Hartman Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Unknown
Scott Hollenbeck Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
()
Unknown