Benoit Claise's No Objection on draft-ietf-bmwg-bgp-basic-convergence-04: (with COMMENT)

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COMMENT:
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As notes by Scott Bradner in his OPS directorate review.
Some comments/questions on the contents of the draft:


1.1 
  "FIB (Data plane) convergence is defined as the completion of all FIB
   changes so that all forwarded traffic now takes the new proposed
   route. "

should route be singular or plural - i.e. is the assumption that the 
routing table converges to a single next hop? (at least for the test
traffic)
if so, does the draft specifically say that (or does rfc 4098 and I
missed it)
note: figure 1 shows multiple peering links - sec 4.1 seems to argue for

multiple peers

  "Data plane convergence is different than control plane
   convergence within a node."

might want to say how they are different


since reporting requiremenst are covered in section 6 should
	they also be mentioned here? (if so, how about in section 4.2)

secton 4.4  & 4.8
	maybe replace TCP MD5 with TCP Authentication Option (2 places)
	or at least mention it

section 4.4 basic test settings - maybe say why these values were chosen


section 4.7  agree as to the importance fo rrepeating trials - is 
there a recognized source that discusses "generally accepted testing 
practices regarding repeatability ..."?

section 5 
	what about Graceful Restart (RFC 4724) - would that impact the 
	clean start desire?

section 5.1.1
      "D.  Start the traffic from the Emulator tx towards the DUT
          targeted at a routes specified in route mixture (ex. routeA)"

	change "a routes" to "a route" or "the routes"

 E & F - as noted earlier in the document - these times should be very
	close to the same - is it actually worth the additional complexity
	to collect the time when the update is received?
	also 5.1.2 H & I,  etc

section 5.1.2 mentions NTP but section 5.1.1 does not - is there a
reason?


section 5.2.1 - since the shutdown event is not timed - does this test
	provide a useful measurement? (or should the time be recorded and
	its just not mentioned?)

section 5.3 - F - implies that the time is recorded but not actually say
	say that it is

	general comment - review all steps of all tests to be sure that 
	NTP is called for when it is needed  and that event times are 
	specifically called for when they are needed and use consistent
	langage in each case

	the overall requiremenst - e.g. NTP could also just be noted
	before the test descriptions and not inlcuded in each one if
	it is needed in all of them - same with advice about 
	nukbers of routes (do tests with different numbers or routes
	up to the full Internet table)

section 6 - should this also include the number of AS Paths?