IETF Last Call Review of draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp-11
review-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp-11-genart-lc-knodel-2026-06-16-00
| Request | Review of | draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp |
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| Requested revision | No specific revision (document currently at 12) | |
| Type | IETF Last Call Review | |
| Team | General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart) | |
| Deadline | 2026-06-15 | |
| Requested | 2026-06-01 | |
| Authors | Jie Dong , Zhibo Hu, Ran Pang | |
| I-D last updated | 2026-07-05 (Latest revision 2026-07-05) | |
| Completed reviews |
Opsdir Early review of -03
by Menachem Dodge
(diff)
Rtgdir Early review of -03 by Henning Rogge (diff) Secdir Early review of -06 by Dave Thaler (diff) Genart IETF Last Call review of -11 by Mallory Knodel (diff) |
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| Assignment | Reviewer | Mallory Knodel |
| State | Completed | |
| Request | IETF Last Call review on draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp by General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) Assigned | |
| Posted at | https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/gen-art/yZnZFFnJ-YgLtPp8ghBhjwT7a3g | |
| Reviewed revision | 11 (document currently at 12) | |
| Result | Ready | |
| Completed | 2026-06-16 |
review-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp-11-genart-lc-knodel-2026-06-16-00
I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed by the IESG for the IETF Chair. Please treat these comments just like any other last call comments. For more information, please see the FAQ at <https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/gen/GenArtFAQ>. Document: draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp-?? Reviewer: Mallory Knodel Review Date: 2026-06-16 IETF LC End Date: 2026-06-15 IESG Telechat date: 2026-07-02 Summary: I am not a domain expert and am reviewing for readability and comprehension. The document is clear, complete, architecturally aligned for someone outside IDR, so thanks for writing it. It extends BGP segment routing policy signaling so that a path can be explicitly associated with a specific Network Resource Partition (NRP). Major issues: None. Minor issues: * It seems that there is a missing architectural overview of this specification that could be elaborated in the introduction. For example, there is no mention of "inter-domain" anywhere in the document. It leaves a non-expert like me wondering what this looks like across various domains or ASes. Perhaps such a paragraph could also contain an example of inter-domain coordination. * Under the procedures section validity is mentioned, "...a BGP speaker determines if it is valid and usable according to ... RFC9830," but there is no direct mention of an "invalid" or "unusable" NRP ID sub-TLV. Perhaps this is what is meant in the second paragraph of the section on Error Handling, but then the language could be harmonized. * The first paragraph should summarize the security considerations cited, not just giving the citation. The second paragraph in security considerations points to an I-D, not an RFC so I would suggest bringing those relevant sections' full text into this document if it is published first. Nits/editorial comments: * Second paragraph in the introduction has some clumsy wording, "... NRP-based enhanced VPN services based on VPN..." * Right after that "Traffic Engineering (TE)" defines the acronym "TE" but it is never used again so suggesting dropping this. * The acronyms "SAFI" and "NLRI" are never expanded. * Make consistent the use of singular/plural "NRP/NRPs". *