[rbridge] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol-02.txt
Caitlin Bestler
caitlinb at broadcom.com
Tue Jan 23 12:31:40 PST 2007
A general comment, there are many paragraphs that appear
to be written in English rather than IETF.
Example:
Designated RBridge R1 can ensure freshness of its endnode information
by doing ARP/ND queries periodically to ensure that the endnodes are
actually there. This can be a problem if the endnodes are in power-
saver mode, and this should be a configuration parameter on R1 as to
whether R1 should "ping" the endnodes by doing ARP/ND queries.
My presumed translation:
A Designate RBridge MUST be capable of ensuring freshness of its
endnode information using periodic ARP/ND queries. Because this
can be a problem if the endnodes are in power-saver mode, there
MUST be a configuration option to disable or control the
frequency
of these queries. These queries SHOULD be enabled by default.
But I could see someone else reading it as:
Designated RBridge R1 MAY esnure freshess of its endnode
information
by doing ARP/ND queries periodically to ensure that the endnodes
are actually there. Because this can be a problem if the
endnodes
are in power-saver mode, there SHOULD be a configuration
parameter
on R1 to enable or disable these pings.
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