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Packet Loss and Delay Measurement for MPLS Networks
RFC 6374

Yes

(Adrian Farrel)
(Dan Romascanu)

No Objection

(David Harrington)
(Gonzalo Camarillo)
(Pete Resnick)
(Peter Saint-Andre)
(Ralph Droms)
(Robert Sparks)
(Russ Housley)
(Wesley Eddy)

Recuse

(Stewart Bryant)

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 04 and is now closed.

(Adrian Farrel; former steering group member) (was Discuss, Yes) Yes

Yes ()

                            

(Dan Romascanu; former steering group member) (was Discuss) Yes

Yes ()

                            

(Ron Bonica; former steering group member) Yes

Yes (2011-06-28)
Please add text to section 2.9.10 stating that in the following conditions, delay measurement will be useless:

- when the two router clocks differ by a significant portion of the round trip time
- when probe processing contributes significantly to round trip time

(David Harrington; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Gonzalo Camarillo; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Pete Resnick; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Peter Saint-Andre; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Ralph Droms; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Robert Sparks; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Russ Housley; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Sean Turner; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection (2011-06-28)
#1) Section 3.1 and 3.2 contains the following:

   TLV Block             Optional block of Type-Length-Value fields

Should Optional be OPTIONAL to indicate support requirement?

#2) Section 4.2.2 contains the following:

   When transmitting an LM Query over a channel, the Version field MUST
   be set to 0.

Shouldn't "over a channel" be removed?  Isn't version always set to 0?

#3) Section 4.2.2 contains the following:

   The Origin Timestamp field SHOULD be set to the time at which this
   message is transmitted, 

hmmm so what other time would be put there?  The definition from earlier sections is:

   Origin Timestamp: Timestamp recording the transmit time of the query
   message.

#4) Section 4.3.1 contains the following:

   When transmitting a DM Query over a channel,

Shouldn't "over a channel" be removed?  Isn't version always set to 0?

(Stephen Farrell; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection (2011-06-25)
(1) Section 2 as a whole is very wordy. While its fine to spell things
out for clarity, this text perhaps demands too little from the reader,
at the expense of clarity for the capable reader. (In other words, this
seems just too long:-) Feel free to entirely ignore this comment
though.

(2) The "(B1,...,Bk)" notation isn't clear in 2.6 - are we measuring
(A,B1) and (A,B2) etc. or are we measuring what happens on the path from
A to Bk via B1,B2...etc.? Since the section is about unidirectional LSPs
it may be easier to just deal with A and B here.

(3) (2.9.3) Saying that the detailed measurement behavaiour "MUST be
made clear to the user" seems wrong in two respects - a) a programmer
won't know what'll be clear to all future users of their code, and b)
there may be no (human) user that can see the direct mesurements, (the
humans might only see derived statistics I guess). I also don't quite
know how I'd test for that MUST. Maybe just loose the 2119 language
there?

(4) 2.9.5 assumes that intermediate nodes can reply to LM/DM messages,
but that hasn't yet been stated.

(5) Two timestamp formats are supported - would be good to include
examples of each at the point where that's first mentioned in detail.

(Wesley Eddy; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Stewart Bryant; former steering group member) Recuse

Recuse ()