Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-02.txt

[Michael Newbery <newbery@gmail.com>]

On 27/10/2009, at 10:45 AM, Internet-Drafts@ietf.org wrote:

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts  
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Operations Working Group of  
> the IETF.
>
>
> 	Title           : Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
> 	Author(s)       : H. Singh, et al.
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-02.txt
> 	Pages           : 14
> 	Date            : 2009-10-26




>    IPv6 Neighbor Discovery and DHCP protocols operate over any type of
>    IPv6 supported link-layer and there is no need for a link-layer
>    specific configuration protocol for IPv6 network layer  
> configuration
>    options like what's e.g. in PPP IPCP for IPv4.  This section makes

"e.g." is superfluous
  options like what's in PPP IPCP for IPv4.  This section makes
or better
  options, as is in PPP IPCP for IPv4.  This section makes

>    G-2:  The IPV6 CE router SHOULD support the following RFCs:
>
>          *  Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification  
> [RFC2460]
>
>          *  Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)  
> Service
>             for IPv6 [RFC3736]
>
>          *  Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes
>             [RFC4191]
>
>          *  IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture [RFC4291]
>
>          *  IPv6 Subnet Model: the Relationship between Links and  
> Subnet
>             Prefixes [I-D.ietf-6man-ipv6-subnet-model]

SHOULD seems inappropriate. RFC2460 must be MUST, especially  
considering the immediately preceding
>    G-1:  An IPv6 CE router is an IPv6 node and MUST follow the IPv6  
> Node
>          Requirements [RFC4294] specification.
since RFC4294 says
>    The Internet Protocol Version 6 is specified in [RFC-2460].  This
>    specification MUST be supported.