Document: draft-ietf-rohc-tcp-requirements-08.txt
Review: Michael A. Patton
Date: 16 februari 2005 
Subject: REVIEW:


Gen ART review of draft-ietf-rohc-tcp-requirements-08.txt

Summary:  This draft is ready for publication as an Informational RFC

I am moved to say that this is one of the best documents I've ever
reviewed.  It's complete, concise and very readable.  I didn't even
notice any typos (and as my other GenART reviews can attest, I usually
pick up a fair number).  I only noticed one improvement that I thought
it could use [next paragraph], but not something important enough to
delay publication at this point.

As I was reading Section 2.3 Item 3 which describes the decompressor
noting that an error occurred, it struck me that in a similar way the
compressor should note if the incoming TCP is already damaged...  It's
probably not too important for this document to mention that, and, of
course, algorithms and/or implementations might include it anyway, but
it might have been useful to mention it for completeness.  On the
other hand, at this stage I do not recommend making such a change to
the document since that would require re-review by many.  I only
mention it to bring it to your attention in case the document does
undergo a rewrite where it could be included.