Carlos,
thanks for the review and sorry for the belated reply. Please inline:
Am 24.09.17 um 09:32 schrieb Carlos Bernardos:
Reviewer: Carlos Bernardos
Review result: Ready with Nits
The document is well written and clear to follow. I have not found any major
issue. I have some recommendations/questions for the authors:
* Page 3: RFC 7919 --> RFC 7819
Nice catch.
* It would be good to have a section (maybe an annex) in which authors describe
the differences (if any) found in the experiments performed with IPv4 vs IPv6.
Since IPv6 does not do broadcast, there may be important differences to
highlight.
We only had v4 networks at the time under observation. While v6 does not
broadcast, it has the all nodes multicast address. I kind of fear to ask
the IETF again to do the experiment on the v6 meeting network as, as you
might remember, it was somewhat controversial :)
* While I understand that the authors do not provide details about the apps
analyzed, it would be good to include more information for example about the
distribution of the frequency of broadcast/multicast messages found in the
experiments.
We mention multiple messages per minute. The highest frequency we
observed was about 8 per minute for a given (popular) app.
And it would also be nice (though I don't know if this would be
feasible) to provide some recommended values for the frequencies to use (an app
developer could benefit from some additional guidelines).
Impossible :)
* Page 5: "In that respect broadcast can be [...]" --> "In that respect,
multicast can be [...]" or "In that respect, broadcast/multicast can be [...]".
Note that the examples used are IPv6, so "broadcast" alone would not apply.
Nice catch, thanks.
Best,
Rolf