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 . Document: draft-ietf-rift-applicability-3 Reviewer: Linda Dunbar Review Date: 2020-12-14 IETF LC End Date: None IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat Summary: This document claims to describe the properties and the applicability of RIFT in different deployment scenarios and highlight the operational simplicity of RIFT. But I find the description is not complete. For example, I can't find any sections describing "the consideration when RIFT is used with or without overlays", nor can I find how RIFT is operationally simpler than Link State protocol. Major issues: Section 3.1 Overview of RIFT listed many benefits of RIFT, but doesn't have any description how those benefits are realized by RIFT. Strongly suggest to have a reference to each of the benefits described in the Section 3.1. There is one statement saying that RIFT uses Link State for the north direction and Distance Vector for the south direction, therefore, RIFT has the benefits of both. But the document doesn't have any description on why RIFT didn't inherent the disadvantages of both. Minor issues: The document uses many acronyms that don't have reference nor definitions: Section 3.2.1 - What do "PoD" and "multi-plane" mean? - What do N-SPF and S-SPF stand for? Section 3.3.1: What does it mean by saying "application in underlay of data center IP fabrics"? Do you mean "applications connected by Clos architecture in DC "? Section 3.3.3 Last sentence: "Moreover, due the limited size of forwarding tables ..." How do the active elements of building cabling related to the "limited sizes of forwarding tables"? Section 3.3.4: First sentence: "It is common ... to use fabrics when crossbar is not feasible" Do you mean "Clos Fabrics"? Section 4: what does "minimum blast radius" mean? What aspects of "extensive Zero Touch Provisioning" achieved by RIFT that can't be achieved by Link State protocols? "RIFT negotiates automatically BFD per link". RIFT uses Link State for North Bound, does it inherit all the properties from Link State (OSPF or IS/IS)? There is no description on how RIFT can automate BFD better than OSPF or IS/IS. "RIFT reduces FIB size towards the bottom of the IP fabric". Do you mean RIFT reduces FIB size for leaf nodes? Page 13: "without disaggregation mechanism, when linkSL6 fails, ..." When Link State protocol is used , if LinkSL6 fails, packets towards prefix 122 should go through LinkSL5-> LinkSL7->LinkSL8. How does it go through linkSL5->LinkT3? Page 16: "the RIFT control protocol can discover the physical links and detect cabling that violates fat-tree". Is it by configuration on the Leaf nodes? Page 25: What is "LIEs"? what is "TIEs"? Page 26: What is "PGP reference"? Nits/editorial comments: Cheers, Linda Dunbar