IETF Last Call Review of draft-ietf-ivy-network-inventory-topology-11
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Type IETF Last Call Review
Team General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)
Deadline 2026-09-28
Requested 2026-09-12
Requested by Mahesh Jethanandani
Authors Bo Wu , Mohamed Boucadair , Cheng Zhou , Qin Wu
I-D last updated 2026-09-26 (Latest revision 2026-09-11)
Completed reviews Yangdoctors Early review of -06 by Andy Bierman (diff)
Opsdir Early review of -06 by Samier Barguil (diff)
Genart IETF Last Call review of -11 by Russ Housley
Assignment Reviewer Russ Housley
State Completed
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Completed 2026-09-16
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Document: draft-ietf-ivy-network-inventory-topology-11
Reviewer: Russ Housley
Review Date: 2026-09-16
IETF LC End Date: 2026-09-26
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Summary: Ready


Major Concerns:

None


Minor Concerns:

Section 2: Please merge Section 2 and Section 2.1.

Section 6 includes:

   Therefore, in typical deployments, "ne-ref", "port-ref", and "link-
   type" SHOULD be populated through automatic discovery but MAY only be
   overridden manually in exceptional cases (e.g., CPE, leased lines, or
   planned resources).

The phrase "MAY only" seems to contradict the ususal definition of MAY.
I suggest dropping "only" from the sentence.


Nits:

Section 7: s/no particularly sensitive RPC/no sensitive RPC/