Re: Shim6 Working Group Last call on the Shim6 Document Set

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

On 2007-07-09 12:40, Geoff Huston wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Thanks for these (ever so slightly belated) WGLC comments.

Hey, you were just trying to take unfair advantage of your time zone :-)

> Among the shim6 documents still on our agenda as a WG is the 
> applicability document. The (currently expired) draft 
> draft-ietf-shim6-applicability-02.txt includes this consideration 
> regarding SHIM6 and SCTP, and also includes applicability comments 
> relating to interaction with other protocols (section 5).
>
> I would like to propose that your comments are addressed in the related 
> current SHIM6 document activity on the topic of an applicability 
> statement, and, given that situation, there is no compelling case to 
> revise the protocol document to include this (and related) applicability 
> considerations.

However, the applicability draft is not cited in the proto draft.
It's listed as a reference, but is not cited. That's going to
have to be fixed editorially anyway. I agree that the applicability
draft is the appropriate place to discuss this.
> I trust that this is an acceptable approach to this consideration to you 
> and the WG and that we are still in a position to submit the protocol 
> document to the IESG as a Proposed Standard.

Indeed,it isn't a normative issue.

   Brian
> regards,
>
>   Geoff
>
>
>
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > On 2007-06-25 02:25, Geoff Huston wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This note starts the WG Last Call for comments on the three "base" 
> > > Shim6 documents as Proposed Standards:
> > >
> > > draft-ietf-shim6-proto-08.txt
> > >              "Level 3 multihoming shim protocol"
> >
> > One substantive comment. The need for some ULPs to bypass the
> > shim is mentioned in section 4.3, API Extensions, but there is
> > no reference to the need for SCTP to bypass the shim, which
> > is not an issue for the socket API. I think that needs to
> > be mentioned somewhere.
> >
> > > draft-ietf-shim6-hba-03.txt
> > >              "Hash Based Addresses (HBA)"
> > >
> > > draft-ietf-shim6-failure-detection-08.txt
> > >              "Failure Detection and Locator Pair
> > >               Exploration Protocol for IPv6
> > >               Multihoming"
> >
> > No substantive comments on these two.
> >
> >     Brian
> >
> > > These documents can be found at:
> > >   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-proto-08.txt
> > >   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-hba-03.txt
> > >
> > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-failure-detection-08.txt 
> > >
> > >
> > > Please review the documents carefully, and send your feedback to the 
> > > SHIM6 list.
> > > Please also indicate whether or not you believe that these documents 
> > > are ready to
> > > go to the IESG for publication as a set of Proposed Standards.
> > >
> > > This Working Group Last Call will end in two weeks, on the 9th July 
> > > 2007 at
> > > 1100, UTC+10
> > >
> > >    Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >          Geoff & Kurtis