Hi Carsten, Small nit. I had a quick read of the diff and although section 2 looks good with the new HTML and CSS, the formula looks mangled in the data tracker format ("present(fc) ⋅ 2"). https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-core-senml-versions-03.txt Ciao! -- Jaime Jiménez On Sun, May 9, 2021, at 10:51 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > Hi Elwyn, > > I finally got around to process your review. > > I have submitted a new version -03 based on this review. > I could make direct use of your text suggestions, but did edit them a > little. > So you may want to have another look at the second paragraph of 1 > (introduction) and the new section 2.2, which address your main points. > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-senml-versions/ > https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-core-senml-versions-03.html > https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-core-senml-versions-03.txt > > That was a great, thoughtful review. > Thanks again! > > CoRE WG: Please also check the above documents and diffs! > > Grüße, Carsten > > > > On 2021-05-03, at 20:56, Elwyn Davies via Datatracker <noreply@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Reviewer: Elwyn Davies > > Review result: Almost Ready > > > > I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area > > Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed > > by the IESG for the IETF Chair. Please treat these comments just > > like any other last call comments. > > > > For more information, please see the FAQ at > > > > <https://trac.ietf.org/trac/gen/wiki/GenArtfaq>. > > > > Document: draft-ietf-core-senml-versions-02 > > Reviewer: Elwyn Davies > > Review Date: 2021-05-03 > > IETF LC End Date: 2021-05-03 > > IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat > > > > Summary: Almost ready. There is one issue that needs to be sorted out. This > > document removes the ordering relationship between the values of version.. > > Section 4.4 of RFC 8428 relies on that ordering relationahip. Accordingly > > there needs to be explicit new text for Section 4.4 in this document. Also the > > concept of 'must understand' items is used in this document but is not > > explicitly defined in RFC 8428. This needs to be fixed - which could happen in > > the new version of Setion 4.4. > > > > Major issues: > > None > > > > Minor issues: > > > > The redefinition of version means that this document should contain an explicit > > update of (at least) paragraph 3 of Section 4.4 of RFC 8428, That section > > assumes that there is an ordering relationship between version field values > > which is invalidated by this document. > > > > Also the concept of 'must understand' fields is supposed to be explained in > > that section as well as discussed in s2.1 of this document. That term is not > > explicitly used in RFC 8428 but I take it that it is supposed to refer to field > > names ending wth an underscore character ('_'). This should be fixed with a > > rewrite of s4.4 of RFC 8428. > > > > Nits/editorial comments: > > > > General: The RFC Editor preferes the US convention for quoting items using > > exclusively singe quote rather than double quote marks. > > > > s1, para 2: I found this paragraph difficult to parse, especially the second > > sentence. Here is an alternative suggestion. OLD: The traditional idea of > > using a version number for evolving an interchange format presupposes a linear > > progression of that format. A more likely form of evolution of SenML is the > > addition of independently selectable _features_ that can be added to the base > > version (version 10) in a fashion that these are mostly independent of each > > other. A recipient of a SenML pack can check the features it implements against > > those required by the pack, processing the pack only if all required features > > are provided in the implementation. NEW: The traditional idea of using a > > version number to indicate the evolution of an interchage format generally > > assmes an incremental progression of the version number as the format develops > > over time. However in the case of SenML it is expected that the likely > > evolution mechanism will be for independently selectable capabiity _features_ > > to be added to the basic system indicated by 'version' 10. To support this > > model, this document repurposes the single version number accompanying a pack > > of SenML records so that it is interpreted as a bitmap indicating the set of > > features a recipient would need to have implemented to be able to process the > > pack. ENDS > > > > s2: Personally I would have used the left shift operator rather then 2^fc but > > that is a personal view. > > > > s2,1, para 2: s/lower-most bit positions Section 3./least significant bit > > positions for the base version as described in Section 3./ > > > > s2.1, para 2: s/Section 4/by the feature defined in Section 4/ > > > > s2.1, para 2: 'boutique' is slang: s/boutique/less generally applicable/ > > > > s3: s/already/effectively already/ > > > > s6: I am not we really care but are feature names case sensitve? > > > > > > > > -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call