Document: draft-ietf-imss-ip-over-fibre-channel-03.txt Reviewer: Lakshminath Dondeti [ldondeti@qualcomm.com] Review Date: Wednesday 11/30/2005 8:14 PM CST Telechat Date: Thursday 12/01/2005 Summary: ready for publication. But, I do have one question. First, I must admit I don't know a whole lot about this area. The document is well written and received a good amount of review. However, I am curious about a collection of MUSTs and SHOULDs and hence the question(s). Section 2.3 says "Class 3 is recommended for IPv6, IPv4 and ARP (see section 4.3)." Section 4.3 in turn says "The following types of packets MUST be mapped in Class 3 FC frames:" That list contains IPv4 multicast/broadcast, IPv6 multicast, and all control traffic (unicast, broadcast or multicast). Other IPv6 and IPv4 packets (i.e., unicast IP packets carrying data traffic) SHOULD be mapped in Class 3 FC frames as well. Support for reception of IPv4 or IPv6 packets mapped in FC frames of any Class other than Class 3 is OPTIONAL; receivers MAY ignore them. My question is why a "MUST" on the multicast and SHOULD on unicast? Is this for backward compatibility? (I did take a quick look at 2625 and that seems to allow other classes for unicast: classes 1 and 2 ?). Nits: There are a couple of instances of the word "recommended." Should those be "RECOMMENDED?" There are also a couple of instances of "must" as well.