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-teas-rsvp-te-scaling-rec-06 Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 2017-09-22 IETF LC End Date: 2017-09-22 IESG Telechat date: 2017-09-28 Summary: Not ready, primarily because the title and presentation give the impression that the content is really a BCP when it isn't. This conceals the considerable amount of tweaking of RFC 2961 functionality and addition of new RSVP Capabilities described in the document. There are also a couple of minor issues that need to be sorted out. Major issues: Title and way proposals are presented: The document defines two new 'capabilities' for RSVP-TE and is indeed (as specified in the document header) correctly intended for Standards Track status. However the title and the whole of the meat of the document in Section 2 presents the proposals as 'recommendations' which says to me that I am expecting a BCP where a profile of available options from existing standards is recommended as the best choice for implementation and deployment. In my opinion, the title would be better as something like "Additional Capabilities Designed to Improve the Scalability of RSVP-TE Deployments". Whilst the proposals are based on the techniques in RFC 2961, the document *requires* the implementor to conform to rules that were optional and constrains configurable values to different ranges in order to be able to deliver the capabilities defined in the document as well as defining new RSVP extensions modifying some of the behaviour defined in RFC 2961. Thus although some of the rules could be met by choosing particular values within the RFC 2961 set, the use of MUST, tweaking of functionality and variation of ranges takes it well beyond a set of recommendations for RFC 2961 options selections. In view of this Section 1 needs to be written as an introduction to the definitions of the new capabilities rather than advocacy for selection of RFC 2961 options and the implication that the techniques mentioned in the last paragraph of s1 are just a matter of selecting a profile of option values. In actuality new protocol values are introduced and ss2.2 and 2.3 define novel extensions to RSVP beyond what is available for RFC 2961 and requiring modification to basic RFC 2961 functionality.. Minor issues: Interaction with RFC 5063: The document does not explicitly state that an implementation would need to support (at least) the extra capability obect defined in s4.2 of RFC 5063. Some words about interaction with RFC 5063 are probably required in that s4.2.1 of RFC 5063 rather assumes that if there is a capability object, by default its S bit will be set. Behaviour if a node stops setting Refresh-Reduction-Capable bit: The last para of s2 in RFC 2961 discusses behaviour if a node stops setting this bit in messages. What would happen with the extensions defined in this document if this happened while either of the extensions is in use? As a matter of interest, if a peer offers the capabilities defined in this draft, is it possible or sensible for it to stop setting the Refresh-Reduction-Capable bit without stopping offering the extensions? s2.1.3, para 2: As specified, it appears that the 'slower timer' transmission of Path and Resv messages can go on indefinitely if no ack arrives. What puts an end to this repetition? [It may be that I have forgotten how basic RSVP works, but since this is altering the behaviour it would be good to explain how it terminates, and whether this requires any additional modification to timers.] Nits/editorial comments: Abstract: RSVP-TE is not a 'well-known' abbreviation: s/RSVP-TE/RSVP Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE)/ Abstract and s1, first para: This para is not future proof. Suggest: OLD: The scale at which RSVP-TE [RFC3209] Label Switched Paths (LSPs) get deployed is growing continually and there is considerable onus on RSVP-TE implementations across the board to keep up with this increasing demand in scale. NEW: At the time of writing, networks which utilise RSVP Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) [RFC3209] Label Switched Paths (LSPs) are encountering limitations in the ability of implementations to support the growth in the number of LSPs deployed. This document defines two additional RSVP-TE extensions that are intended to reduce the number of messages needed to maintain RSVP-TE soft state in routers and hence allow implementations to support larger scale deployments. ENDS Note: Omit reference from Abstract. s1, para 2: s/under certain/beyond a certain/ s1, para 3: s/makes a set of concrete implementation recommendations/defines two extensions/; s/- push higher/by increasing/; s/maintain LSP state./maintain LSP state by reducing the number of messages needed./ Abstract, para 2 and s1, last para: [Omit reference from Abstract] OLD: This document advocates the use of a couple of techniques - "Refresh- Interval Independent RSVP (RI-RSVP)" and "Per-Peer Flow-Control" - for significantly cutting down the amount of processing cycles required to maintain LSP state. NEW: This document defines two RSVP Capabilities [RFC5063] "Refresh- Interval Independent RSVP (RI-RSVP)" and "Per-Peer Flow-Control" that will cut down the number of messsages and processing cycles required to maintain LSP state. ENDS s1, last para: Add new penultimate sentence: Note that the "Per-Peer Flow-Control" capability requires the "RI-RSVP" capability as a prerequisite. s1, last para: s/RECOMMENDED/recommended/ - this isn't a recommendation about the protocol on the wire. Subdivision of s2: The issues regarding the nature of the document would be helped by altering s2 into four top level sections, thus: s2: Requirement for RFC 2961 Refresh Overhead Reduction Support and Specific Option Choices (from s2.1) s3: Requirement for RFC 5063 Capability Object support (see Minor Issues above) s4: Refresh-Interval Independent RSVP Capability (from s2.3) s5: Per-Peer RSVP Flow Control Capability (from s2.4) Subsequent major sections then renumbered as s6 onwards. References to s2.x will need to be updated throughout. s2.1 (would be introduction of new s2): OLD: The implementation recommendations discussed in this section are based on the proposals made in [RFC2961] and act as prerequisites for implementing the techniques discussed in Sections 2.2 and 2.3. NEW: The Capabilities defined in Sections 4 and 5 of this document are based on proposals made in [RFC2961]. Implementations of these Capabilities will need to support the RSVP messages and techniques defined in [RFC2961] as set out in Section 2.1 [was 2.1.1] with some minor modifications and alterations to recommended time intervals and iteration counts as defined in the remainder of this section. ENDS s2.1.1, title and para 1 [will be s2.1]: OLD: 2.1.1. Basic Prerequisites An implementation that supports the techniques discussed in Sections 2.2 and 2.3 must meet certain basic prerequisites. NEW: 2.1. Required Functionality from RFC 2961 to be Implemented An implementation that supports the capabiities discussed in Sections 4 and 5 must provide a large subset of the functionality described in [RFC2961] as follows: ENDS s2.1.2, para 2 [will be s2.2]: s/techniques discussed in Sections 2.2 and 2.3/Capabilities defined in Sections 4 and 5/ s2.1.2, para 2: s/MESSAGE ID/MESSAGE_ID/ s2.2, para 1: s/improvement on transmission overhead/improvement of transmission overhead/ s2.2, para 1: s/proposes sufficient recommendations/sets out additional requirements/ s2.2, last bullet: Add a reference to the proposed new Section 3 that discusses the Capability object. s2.2.1, last para: s/set Refresh-Reduction-Capable bit in common header/set the Refresh-Reduction-Capable bit in the common header/ s2.3, para 1: s/set of recommendations/functionality/; s/provide/provides/; s/RSVP-TE control plane congestion/a significant portion of the RSVP-TE control message load/ s2.3.2: s/MESSAGE ID/MESSAGE_ID/