Subject: Gen-ART Last Call review of draft-ietf-tcpm-dctcp-07

From: Orit Levin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:24:20 +0000

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Document: draft-ietf-tcpm-dctcp-07
Reviewer: Orit Levin
Review Date: 2017-06-17
IETF LC End Date: 2017-06-15
IESG Telechat date: 2017-06-22

Summary: This draft is ready for publication with nits:

Section 3.2 
"... an implementation may choose to send two ACKs, ..." Suggest changing "may" to either "can" or "MAY", as fitted.

Section 3.4 
"... like ssthresh must be changed ..." Suggest changing "must" to either "need" or "MUST", as fitted.

Section 3.5 
"... may result in..." Suggest changing "may" to "might".

Section 4.1 
"An implementation should decide when to use DCTCP." Suggest replacing "should decide" with "needs to know".

"... there is additional management and configuration overhead required..." suggest replacing with "additional management and configuration functionality is needed".

"Potential solutions ..." suggest replacing "Potential" with either "Possible" or "Known". 

Section 4.2
"... a scaled updated must ensure ..." Suggest replacing "must" with either "MUST" or "needs to".

Section 7
"... the first versions..." Suggest replacing with "initial drafts".

Section 8
"Since most servers run virtualized in datacenters, in addition ..." Suggest replacing with "Beyond the security considerations related to virtual servers, "

Thanks,
Orit.