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Type Last Call Review
Team General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)
Deadline 2014-10-13
Requested 2014-10-02
Authors Luo Jian , Lizhong Jin , Thomas Nadeau , George Swallow
I-D last updated 2014-10-09
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -04 by Joel M. Halpern (diff)
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Document: draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-relay-reply-04
    Relayed Echo Reply mechanism for LSP Ping
Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern
Review Date: 8-October-2014
IETF LC End Date: 13-October-2014
IESG Telechat date: (if known)

Summary: This document is not ready for publication as a Proposed Standard

Major issues:


    There is either a major technical flaw in this document, or there 


is a need for significantly better explanation.  The following is what I 


was able to understand from reading the document.


    The procedure in the document calls for a responding or relaying 


LSR to search the response addresses from the top to the bottom (top 


being the originator of the request, bottom being visible originators). 


 The responder then sends the reply to the first usable address it can 


find in the stack.  Usable is variously described as "public routable" 


and as "routable" (in sections 4.2), the converse is described as 


"unroutable" in section 4.3, while section 4.4 uses "routable".


If it means "routable", then this assumes that the private addresses 


used by one AS will not happen to also be used in another AS (which 


would make them routable in that domain, directing the reply to 


completely the wrong place.


If it means "publicly routable", this would seem to fail since routers 


do not know whether routable addresses are public, private, or simply 


not martian.




Minor issues:


    The procedures assume that border routers will know the correct 


address to put in the reply stack.  It is not bovious that even if the 


router has a public address, it will get put on.  The requirement stated 


here is that the address put on be the same one used to originate the 


reply.  Which would seem likely to be na internal address in many cases.






    The procedure for setting k=0 allowing entries to be removed from 


the stack seems fragile.  It relies on routers being able to determine 


that their address will not be needed for relay by the next hop.




Nits/editorial comments:


   Some of the procedure for originating a reply is described in 


section 4.2 on Receiving a request, rather than in seciton 4.3 on 


originating the reply.  (Information such as the address to put on the 


stack, where it goes on the stack, and the handling of the reply packet 


being too large all belong in 4.3.)