Last Call Review of draft-ietf-roll-useofrplinfo-25
review-ietf-roll-useofrplinfo-25-tsvart-lc-perkins-2019-04-11-00

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The draft updates RFC 6553 to use a different IPv6 hop-by-hop option type for
RPL packets, to avoid some issues discovered through deployment experience.
This looks to require a flag day cutover, and hence has some potential
interoperability concerns, but introduces no transport concern. The draft also
describes a number of clarifications around when to use the RPL hop-by-hop
option header and when to use IP-in-IP tunnelling, described based on a set of
use case examples.

There do not look to be any new transport-related concerns with this draft.

The draft does not mention ECN when using IPv6-in-IPv6 tunneling. It is perhaps
implied, but a reference to RFC 6040 would be helpful to clarify how ECN bits
are copied between inner and outer headers when encapsulating and decapsulating
packets from an IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnel. ECN is seeing increasing use in transport
protocols, so correctly propagating this information is important.