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Telechat Review of draft-ietf-bmwg-ngfw-performance-13
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Request Review of draft-ietf-bmwg-ngfw-performance
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 15)
Type Telechat Review
Team General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)
Deadline 2022-02-01
Requested 2022-01-14
Authors Balamuhunthan Balarajah , Carsten Rossenhoevel , Brian Monkman
I-D last updated 2022-02-01
Completed reviews Secdir Early review of -00 by Kathleen Moriarty (diff)
Tsvart Last Call review of -12 by Tommy Pauly (diff)
Tsvart Telechat review of -13 by Tommy Pauly (diff)
Iotdir Telechat review of -13 by Toerless Eckert (diff)
Genart Telechat review of -13 by Matt Joras (diff)
Tsvart Telechat review of -13 by Tommy Pauly (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Matt Joras
State Completed
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Reviewed revision 13 (document currently at 15)
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Completed 2022-02-01
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Document: draft-ietf-bmwg-ngfw-performance-13
Reviewer: Matt Joras
Review Date: 2022-01-31
IETF LC End Date: 2021-12-29
IESG Telechat date: 2022-02-03

Nits/editorial comments:

Section 4.3.1.1
This section details TCP stack attributes in great detail. However,
subsequently HTTP/3 and QUIC are both mentioned in 4.3.1.3.. QUIC is in need of
tuning just as much as TCP, if not more.

" HTTP/3 emulated browser uses QUIC ([RFC9000]) as transport protocol." should
be reworded, and I'm not exactly sure what it is trying to convey.

"Depending on test scenarios and selected HTTP version, HTTP header compression
MAY be set to enable or disable." should probably read " be enabled or
disabled."

Similarly in sections 7, there is a lot of specific mention of TCP connections,
TCP RSTs, FINs, etc. and continued mentioning of HTTP. Since QUIC is a
significant carrier of HTTP traffic it seems these sections should not be so
specific to TCP. Especially since it seems as though for these kinds of devices
their limits may very well be different for UDP or TCP flows.