Ddocument: draft-iesg-tcpmd5app-01.txt
Review: Spencer Dawkins
Date: 26 november 2004 


No objection to publication as Informational, but I *am* confused on
one thing - Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) is not mentioned at all
in the title, abstract, introduction, or anywhere before section 5,
which says

  The Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) [RFC3036] also uses [RFC2385].
  Deployment practices for LDP are very similar to those of BGP: LDP
  connections are usually confined within a single autonomous system
  and most frequently span a single link between two routers. This
  makes LDP threat environment very similar to BGP's. Given this, and
  a considerable installed base of LDP in service provider networks,
  we are not deprecating [RFC2385] for use with LDP.

I'm not totally sure what this section says ("are not deprecating" -
did anyone say we were?), but am mostly confused about why it's even
in the document at all.

If the last sentence was "we think [RFC2385] is as suitable for use
with LDP as it is for BGP4, based on identical reasoning", that would
be less confusing. If the section title was "An Aside on LDP Use of
[RFC2385]", even that would help.

It would be a very weird decision to advance BGP4 with RFC2385 while
deprecating RFC2385 with LDP in very similar deployed environments...

Thanks,

Spencer, wondering how many RFCs contain the word "pursuant", and
being afraid to look. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Day, if you
found yourself in the part of the world that celebrated it yesterday -
or even it you didn't.