IETF Last Call Review of draft-ietf-netmod-immutable-flag-11
review-ietf-netmod-immutable-flag-11-genart-lc-halpern-2026-05-27-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-netmod-immutable-flag
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 12)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)
Deadline 2026-06-09
Requested 2026-05-26
Authors Qiufang Ma , Qin Wu , Balázs Lengyel , Hongwei Li
I-D last updated 2026-06-12 (Latest revision 2026-06-12)
Completed reviews Yangdoctors Early review of -06 by Per Andersson (diff)
Genart IETF Last Call review of -11 by Joel M. Halpern (diff)
Secdir IETF Last Call review of -11 by Magnus Nyström (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Joel M. Halpern
State Completed
Request IETF Last Call review on draft-ietf-netmod-immutable-flag by General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) Assigned
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Reviewed revision 11 (document currently at 12)
Result Ready w/nits
Completed 2026-05-27
review-ietf-netmod-immutable-flag-11-genart-lc-halpern-2026-05-27-00
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Document: draft-ietf-netmod-immutable-flag-11
Reviewer: Joel Halpern
Review Date: 2026-05-27
IETF LC End Date: 2026-06-09
IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat

Summary: This document is ready for publication as a Proposed Standard

Major issues:

Minor issues:

Nits/editorial comments:
    In section 5.4 on annotating Lists, paragraphs 2 and 3 say almost the same
    thing.  Paragraph 2 is cleareer, although paragraph 3 has a useful forward
    reference. I presume I am misreading paragraphs 4 and 5 of section 5.4 (on
    annotating Lists).  Paragraph 4 seems to ssay that one can not mark an
    entire list as immutable.  And paragraph 5 seems to then talk about the
    meaning if a list is immutable.  Is paragraph 5 intended for the case where
    immutability is inherited from a parent?  If so, it would be good to say so.