Last Call Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis-08
review-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis-08-rtgdir-lc-dimitri-2017-03-02-00

Hello,

I have been selected as the Routing Directorate reviewer for this draft. The
Routing Directorate seeks to review all routing or routing-related drafts as
they pass through IETF last call and IESG review, and sometimes on special
request. The purpose of the review is to provide assistance to the Routing ADs.
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Although these comments are primarily for the use of the Routing ADs, it would
be helpful if you could consider them along with any other IETF Last Call
comments that you receive, and strive to resolve them through discussion or by
updating the draft.

Document: draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis-08.txt
Reviewer: Dimitri Papadimitriou
Review Date: 01-03-2017
Intended Status: Standards Track

Summary:

I have some minor comments about this document that I think might have to be
resolved before publication.

Major Issues:

No major issues found.

Minor Issues:

Section 4.4: processing of the "segment left" field is left undocumented
(shouldn't it be decremented after being processed ?)

Section 4.5: "If insufficient fragments are received to complete reassembly"
does "insufficient" means the last fragment ?

Section 4.8: states "New hop-by-hop options are not recommended because nodes
may be configured to ignore the Hop-by-Hop Option header, drop packets
containing a hop-by-hop header" does this configuration change because options
are new or old ? there seems to be confusion here between "new vs. existing"
options and "intermediate nodes MAY be configured to ignore/drop packets with
these options included".

Section 8.3: one would have expected a self-consistent formula to determine the
max.payload size instead of a relative comparison to IPv4

Section 8.4: automatically reversed or not, this section doesn't state if the
response (understood here that the option type is recognized) is to be sent to
the source address (directly) or the last entry from the record route for
instance (cf. Section 4.4).

Editorials:

p2. s/Internet Protocol/Internet Protocol (IP)

Section 2 defines link for link MTU but doesn't define path for path MTU

p14. s/a source node know/a source node knows

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