Re: Some review comments on draft-matsushima-spring-dmm-srv6-mobile-uplane-03

Charlie Perkins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.nemo
Message-ID <8d8046fc-f948-db5c-e87e-fc7bc17dff77__21561.168440576$1512029275$gmane$org@earthlink.net>
Hello Satoru,

Follow-up on a couple of details below...


On 11/29/2017 11:43 PM, Satoru Matsushima wrote:
> Thank you Charlie, for your comments.

You're more than welcome!

>
>> As a general comment, I found it confusing about whether "legacy" means IPv4, or "non-SRv6" IPv6.  For instance, I am not sure about whether "D::1" is IPv4 or IPv6 in the first paragraph of section 6.3.1.  As a related matter, I think that relying solely on terminology like S::1, D::1, A2::1, A2::B2, and so on soon becomes confusing.  More diagrams would be nice.
> Those represent 128bits of IPv6 source address, destination address and segment IDs. I suppose that the reader in the IETF can understand that. If not, yes need to improve it that introduce diagrams looks a good idea.

The addresses do indeed look like IPv6 example addresses.  But somewhere 
in the nearby text, there is reference to an IPv4 address as well.  So I 
was not really sure.


>
>> It should also be allowed that rate limiting is not done when there has not been any such rate-limit Locator provided.
> Correct. But it seems too obvious for me.

It's obvious to me also.  But to 2,000 readers, it won't be obvious to 
every one of them.

>
>> The document states:
>>
>>>      ......   the mobile control-plane may
>>>     assume that one user-plane entity has one IPv6 address ...
>> I'm pretty sure this isn't true for IPv6 nodes.
> I think it is true. I haven’t seen any document of which _mobile_ control-plane has the notion of node of user-plane in addition to just endpoint address of tunnel in its protocol.

All IPv6 nodes have link-local and multicast addresses in addition to 
their "normal" addresses.  Plus, in general, it has to be allowed for 
mobile nodes to have multiple addresses.  I also strongly suspect that 
the active forwarding nodes will often require multiple addresses, 
especially if SDN is involved.  Or network overlays, or NFV.


Regards,
Charlie P.

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