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Last Call Review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis-16
review-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis-16-artart-lc-gondwana-2024-09-29-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 18)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team ART Area Review Team (artart)
Deadline 2024-10-08
Requested 2024-09-24
Authors Jürgen Schönwälder
I-D last updated 2025-12-22 (Latest revision 2025-06-23)
Completed reviews Yangdoctors IETF Last Call review of -16 by Martin Björklund (diff)
Opsdir IETF Last Call review of -16 by Giuseppe Fioccola (diff)
Secdir IETF Last Call review of -16 by Rifaat Shekh-Yusef (diff)
Dnsdir IETF Last Call review of -16 by Florian Obser (diff)
Genart IETF Last Call review of -16 by Russ Housley (diff)
Artart IETF Last Call review of -16 by Bron Gondwana (diff)
Dnsdir Telechat review of -17 by Florian Obser (diff)
Artart Telechat review of -17 by Bron Gondwana (diff)
Intdir Telechat review of -17 by Antoine Fressancourt (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Bron Gondwana
State Completed
Request IETF Last Call review on draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis by ART Area Review Team Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/art/PAj8sI2HAh0QTKluPWLQh6_vync
Reviewed revision 16 (document currently at 18)
Result Not ready
Completed 2024-09-29
review-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis-16-artart-lc-gondwana-2024-09-29-00
I'm the designated ARTART reviewer for this document.  It's generally well
written and clear; I didn't see any issues with the document itself, however
there are some obsolete references and changes to align with work done
elsewhere in the IETF which I believe would improve the overall
cross-compatibility of IETF specifications significantly, hence my marking it
as "NOT READY".

*Date-Time:*

While the date-time format duplicates the description found in RFC 6021 and
later RFC 6991, the construct -00:00 has been identified as being incompatible
with the latest ISO8601 by the work in the SEDATE working group.  I would refer
you to section 2 of RFC 9557 for the full description and update of RFC 3339
which was done there.  I suggest that this document should be updated to align
with (and reference) RFC 9557 and deprecate the usage of -00:00; instead using
"Z" to mean "local time reference point is unknown" as is common practice. 
This will improve future interoperability with ISO8601.

Likewise the same issue occurs with the new "date" format and "time" format.

*Email Address:*

The email-address construct in this document is limited to 7-bit.  RFC 6531 and
RFC 6532 have extended Email Address to allow UTF-8 characters.  There's a good
analysis of the changes at:
https://gist.github.com/baker-ling/3b4b014ee809aa9732f9873fe060c098

Since this is a new datatype being added, it should support all legal email
addresses as defined in current IETF RFCs; so be extended for 8 bit
local-parts. Similarly, the domain part of the address should explicitly
mention A-labels for Internationalized domain names, as the "domain-name"
construct does.