Re: [Last-Call] [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-bfd-unsolicited-10

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Dan, thank you for your review. I have entered a Discuss ballot for this document based on my own review.

Lars


> On Nov 2, 2022, at 16:39, Dan Romascanu via Datatracker <noreply@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Reviewer: Dan Romascanu
> Review result: Ready with Nits
> 
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> Document: draft-ietf-bfd-unsolicited-10
> Reviewer: Dan Romascanu
> Review Date: 2022-11-02
> IETF LC End Date: 2022-11-14
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
> 
> Summary:
> 
> This is a well-written and clear document that describes procedures for
> "unsolicited BFD" that allow a BFD session to be initiated by only one side,
> and established without explicit per-session configuration or registration by
> the other side (subject to certain per-interface or global policies), with the
> goal of achieving operational simplification of "sessionless" applications
> using Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).
> 
> The document is Ready from a Gen-ART perspective. A couple of editorial nits
> need clarification and possible fixes.
> 
> Major issues:
> 
> Minor issues:
> 
> Nits/editorial comments:
> 
> 1. Section 1 refers to draft-ietf-idr-rs-bfd which has the status Expired in
> the Datatracker. Is the intention to stay with the archived version of this
> Expired document?
> 
> 2. Section 3 defines the new state variable Role as 'The role of the BFD
> session as per [RFC5880], section 6.1.'.
> 
> However, RFC 5880 talks about role as an attribute of the system in session
> initialization rather than an
> 
>> A system may take either an Active role or a Passive role in session
>   initialization.  A system taking the Active role MUST send BFD
>   Control packets for a particular session, regardless of whether it
>   has received any BFD packets for that session.  A system taking the
>   Passive role MUST NOT begin sending BFD packets for a particular
>   session until it has received a BFD packet for that session, and thus
>   has learned the remote system's discriminator value.  At least one
>   system MUST take the Active role (possibly both).  The role that a
>   system takes is specific to the application of BFD, and is outside
>   the scope of this specification.
> 
> I believe that wording in the two documents needs to be aligned.
> 
> 
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