Skip to main content

Last Call Review of draft-ietf-isis-remaining-lifetime-02
review-ietf-isis-remaining-lifetime-02-genart-lc-holmberg-2016-08-06-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-isis-remaining-lifetime
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 04)
Type Last Call Review
Team General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)
Deadline 2016-08-15
Requested 2016-08-01
Authors Les Ginsberg , Paul Wells , Bruno Decraene , Tony Przygienda , Hannes Gredler
Draft last updated 2016-08-06
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -02 by Christer Holmberg (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -01 by Rich Salz (diff)
Opsdir Last Call review of -01 by Tim Wicinski (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Christer Holmberg
State Completed
Review review-ietf-isis-remaining-lifetime-02-genart-lc-holmberg-2016-08-06
Reviewed revision 02 (document currently at 04)
Result Almost Ready
Completed 2016-08-06
review-ietf-isis-remaining-lifetime-02-genart-lc-holmberg-2016-08-06-00

I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART,
please see the FAQ at <http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq>



Document:

                       draft-ietf-isis-remaining-lifetime-02

Reviewer:



Christer Holmberg

Review Date:



6 August 2016

IETF LC End Date:



15 August 2016

IETF Telechat Date:        N/A



Summary:

The document is well written, and almost ready for publication as a standards
track RFC, but I have a couple of editorial comments that I’d like the authors
to
 address.

Major Issues:    None

Minor Issues:    None

Editorial Issues:

The Abstract says:

“Corruption of the Remainining Lifetime Field in a Link State PDU can go
undetected.  In certain scenarios this may cause or exacerbate flooding
storms.  It is also a possible denial
 of service attack vector.  This document defines a backwards compatible
 solution to this problem.”

…and the first sentence of the Problem Statement says:

“Each Link State PDU (LSP) includes a Remaining Lifetime field.”

I have no idea what a Link State PDU is, and there is no introduction to what
the draft is all about. The text jumps direction into the work.

So, please add a reference to Link State PDU (LSP), and please give a little
bit of introduction text what context/environment this is all about. I assume
there is some core document
 which describes the context/environment where the Link State PDU is used?