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Telechat Review of draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data-12
review-ietf-ippm-ioam-data-12-intdir-telechat-bernardos-2021-03-22-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 17)
Type Telechat Review
Team Internet Area Directorate (intdir)
Deadline 2021-03-23
Requested 2021-03-17
Requested by Éric Vyncke
Authors Frank Brockners , Shwetha Bhandari , Tal Mizrahi
I-D last updated 2021-03-22
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -11 by Dan Romascanu (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -11 by Shawn M Emery (diff)
Intdir Telechat review of -12 by Carlos J. Bernardos (diff)
Comments
Even if this document is not applicable, IMHO, across the Internet, I would appreciate a review by the Internet directorate. Sorry for the short notice.

Thank you

-éric
Assignment Reviewer Carlos J. Bernardos
State Completed
Request Telechat review on draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data by Internet Area Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/int-dir/Tq0eZIJHL7VxdEYbq6yXmGczqd4
Reviewed revision 12 (document currently at 17)
Result Ready w/nits
Completed 2021-03-22
review-ietf-ippm-ioam-data-12-intdir-telechat-bernardos-2021-03-22-00
Thanks for this document. I think it is well written and well on track. I
include below some comments, mostly from an Internet view point, but not
limited to that.

- I wonder if some SHOULD/MUST language needs to be used in the following
piece, as it talks about important operational considerations:

   "The operator has to consider the
   potential operational impact of IOAM to mechanisms such as ECMP
   processing (e.g.  load-balancing schemes based on packet length could
   be impacted by the increased packet size due to IOAM), path MTU (i.e.
   ensure that the MTU of all links within a domain is sufficiently
   large to support the increased packet size due to IOAM) and ICMP
   message handling (i.e. in case of IPv6, IOAM support for ICMPv6 Echo
   Request/Reply is desired which would translate into ICMPv6 extensions
   to enable IOAM-Data-Fields to be copied from an Echo Request message
   to an Echo Reply message)."

- I think a clarification of how an IOAM domain relates to an administrative
domain (as mentioned in Section 4) is required. It is not clear if they are the
same or an IOAM domain is a subset of an admin domain.

- Are there any privacy concerns due to the fact of the information that IOAM
discloses and can be analyzed by any node in the domain? There is some text in
the Security Considerations, but it does not cover in much detail the new risks
that it opens due to the additional information disclosure for that belong to
the domain.

-Nit: in section 3, some abbreviations follow the approach "XXX: ", while
others "YYY ". Please harmonize it. Example of what I mean below:

   E2E        Edge to Edge

   Geneve:    Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
              [I-D.ietf-nvo3-geneve]

Thanks,

Carlos