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draft-ietf-rtgwg-ordered-fib

(1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet
Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper
type of RFC? Is this type of RFC indicated in the title page header?
Informational; it documents a valuable mechanism developed by the WG to prevent
transient loops.

Yes, the title page indicates the correct type.

(2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up.
Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be
found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval
announcement contains the following sections:

Technical Summary:

This document describes a mechanism for use in conjunction with link state
routing protocols which prevents the transient loops which would otherwise
occur during topology changes. It does this by correctly sequencing the FIB
updates on the routers.

The mechanisms presented in this document are purely illustrative of the
general approach and do not constitute a protocol specification. The document
represents a snapshot of the work of the working group at the time of
publication and is published as a document of record. Additional work is needed
to specify the necessary routing protocol extensions to support this IPFRR
method before implementation or deployment.

Working Group Summary:

No issues.  There is consensus in the WG to proceed with publication.

Document Quality:

This document presents the general mechanism and operation of oFIB, it doesn't
define routing protocol-specific extensions — which means that there are no
implementations possible, but also no further work is planned at this time. 
The document has no substantive issues.

Personnel:

Alvaro Retana is the Document Shepherd.

Adrian Farrel is the Responsible Area Director.  [Stewart Bryant is the AD
assigned to the WG, but he is an author.]

(3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by the
Document Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready for
publication, please explain why the document is being forwarded to the IESG.

The document (currently in it's 8th iteration) has been thoroughly reviewed. 
Comments have been made by the Document Shepherd related to clarity, form and
content.  All comments have been addressed.  The document is ready for
publication.

(4) Does the document Shepherd have any concerns about the depth or breadth of
the reviews that have been performed?

No concerns.

(5) Do portions of the document need review from a particular or from broader
perspective, e.g., security, operational complexity, AAA, DNS, DHCP, XML, or
internationalization? If so, describe the review that took place.

N/A

(6) Describe any specific concerns or issues that the Document Shepherd has
with this document that the Responsible Area Director and/or the IESG should be
aware of? For example, perhaps he or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of
the document, or has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any
event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated that it still
wishes to advance the document, detail those concerns here.

N/A

(7) Has each author confirmed that any and all appropriate IPR disclosures
required for full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have
already been filed. If not, explain why?

Yes.  The question has been raised throughout the process.

(8) Has an IPR disclosure been filed that references this document? If so,
summarize any WG discussion and conclusion regarding the IPR disclosures.

Yes, document has an IPR disclosure attached from the authors.  No concerns
have been raised in the WG.

(9) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it represent the
strong concurrence of a few individuals, with others being silent, or does the
WG as a whole understand and agree with it?

This document has been a WG item for about 6 years.  During this time the
mechanism (application and potential implementations) have been discussed in
depth.  There is consensus to publish this document as an Informational RFC.

At the time of publication there is no demand to deploy this technology,
however in view of the subtleties involved in the design of loop-free
convergence routing protocol extensions the Routing Area Working Group
considered it desirable to publish this document to place on record the design
consideration of the ordered FIB (oFIB) approach.

(10) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent?
If so, please summarise the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the
Responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this
questionnaire is publicly available.)

No.

(11) Identify any ID nits the Document Shepherd has found in this document.
(See http://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ and the Internet-Drafts Checklist).
Boilerplate checks are not enough; this check needs to be thorough.

The only nit to point out is that 6 authors are listed.

All the authors can make claims for recognition of their contribution to this
original work. They have all also actively participated in discussions related
to the draft.

(12) Describe how the document meets any required formal review criteria, such
as the MIB Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.

N/A

(13) Have all references within this document been identified as either
normative or informative?

Yes.

(14) Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for
advancement or are otherwise in an unclear state? If such normative references
exist, what is the plan for their completion?

None exist.

(15) Are there downward normative references references (see RFC 3967)? If so,
list these downward references to support the Area Director in the Last Call
procedure.

No.

(16) Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs?
Are those RFCs listed on the title page header, listed in the abstract, and
discussed in the introduction? If the RFCs are not listed in the Abstract and
Introduction, explain why, and point to the part of the document where the
relationship of this document to the other RFCs is discussed. If this
information is not in the document, explain why the WG considers it unnecessary.

No.

(17) Describe the Document Shepherd's review of the IANA considerations
section, especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the
document. Confirm that all protocol extensions that the document makes are
associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm that
any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm that newly
created IANA registries include a detailed specification of the initial
contents for the registry, that allocations procedures for future registrations
are defined, and a reasonable name for the new registry has been suggested (see
RFC 5226).

There are no IANA considerations which arise from this document.

(18) List any new IANA registries that require Expert Review for future
allocations. Provide any public guidance that the IESG would find useful in
selecting the IANA Experts for these new registries.

N/A

(19) Describe reviews and automated checks performed by the Document Shepherd
to validate sections of the document written in a formal language, such as XML
code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc.

N/A
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