Document: draft-aboulmagd-trtcm-inprofile-01.txt
Reviewer: John Loughney
Date: 30 augusti 2004 01.19.36 GMT-04:00


3.3.2 Returning Item
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-aboulmagd-trtcm-inprofile-01.txt
    Two Rate Three Color Marker for Differentiated Services
    (Informational)
    Token: Jon Peterson
    Reviewer: John Loughney


Harold,


	Reviews should focus on these questions: "Does this document
	represent an end run around the IETF's working groups
	or its procedures? Does this document present an incompatible
	change to IETF technologies as if it were compatible?" Other
	matters may be sent to the RFC Editor in private review.

There currently is no WG working on diffserv; this document might
be too small to be part of TSVWG.

Comments:
1) Not enough motivation why "A Single Rate Three Color Marker" and
   "A Two Rate Three Color Marker" are not sufficient or at least
   what the advanteges of the proposed mechanism proposed are.
2) No security section to speak of. Is the authors sure that this
   cannot be abused any any way?

Nits:
1) stray non-ascii characters, starting in the Abstract, ® for example.
2) Copyright, IPR, etc. statements need updating.
3) "The differentiated service defines a quality of service (QoS)" 

 - should be:

    "Differentiated Services defines a quality of service (QoS)"
4) Needs to expand various acronyms: L2 VPN for example.
5) Needs an editorial pass.

Summary:

I could not find discussion of this document anywhere, which worries me.
Technically, I think this is OK, but since it fails the ID-Nits checklist
and some more text in the introduction & in the security considerations
section, I'd probably recommend having the document revised.  

John