Last Call Review of draft-ietf-opsawg-management-stds-
review-ietf-opsawg-management-stds-genart-lc-garcia-2012-03-06-00

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Document: draft-ietf-opsawg-management-stds-05.txt
Reviewer: Miguel Garcia <miguel.a.garcia at ericsson.com>
Review Date: 2012-06-03	
IETF LC End Date: 2012-03-08
IESG Telechat date: 2012-03-15

Summary: The document is ready for publication as an Informational RFC

Major issues: none

Minor issues: none

Nits/editorial comments:



The document fills the gap of providing an overview of the IETF 


management standards. I believe this type of documents is highly needed, 


so a big thanks to the authors and contributors for spending quite some 


time in putting this draft.




Here are some minor improvements:



- In section 1.3, I would add informative references to "Relax NG", 


"URI", "XPath", SMIv2, XSD, and YANG.






- In section 2.2, 4th paragraph, I wouldd add informative references to 


ITU-T X.733 and IETF Alarm MIB.






- Section 3.5, 4th paragraph, add references to "IPsec tunnels", 


"TLS-based security solutions"




- Expand acronyms at first usage. This includes:
  - RMON (Section 2.3)
  - YANG, XSD (Section 1.3)



- Section 3.3.2 describes COPS-PR, I would have expected to first 


describe COPS, and then COPS-PR as a variation of it. But there is no 


description of COPS, so I would like you to consider first adding a 


description of COPS.






- Section 3.6 (page 31). The text merely names the names of the different 


Diameter applications. I would expect to see a one-paragraph description 


of what application does. As a comparison, this is what the rest of the 


document does when describing extensions or applications of a protocol. 


So, I would ask you to take a look at the abstract of each RFC and write 


it in there.






- Section 3.10 describes XCAP. I am missing some text to guide the reader 


a bit further. I would describe that XCAP has been designed and is 


commonly used in SIP environments, in particular SIP for Instant 


Messages, Presence, and Conferences. I am also missing some text 


indicating that XCAP by itself is a kind of framework, but the real 


functionality is provided by "XCAP Application Usages", where there are 


big number of these applications. Having said that, I would expect the 


document to list the IETF-produced XCAP application usages together with 


a one-paragraph description. FYI, you can take a look at this list of 


XCAP application usages in the SIMPLE WG document list: 


http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/simple/








- Section 4.1.3, 2nd paragraph, describes what IPPM is all about. I think 


this is not the correct place to have such description, because IPPM has 


been already described in Section 3.4. So, I would replace the second 


paragraph except the first sentence with a reference to Section 3.4.






- Section 4.1.6, 2nd and 3rd paragraphs, I would add references to 


Sections 2.3 (IPFIX) and 2.2 (SYSLOG), respectively.






- Section 4.2.1, penultimate paragraph, add an informative reference to 


the "core system and interface models in YANG".




BR,

    Miguel

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Miguel A. Garcia
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