Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ug-00.txt

From: Brian E Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:59:57 +0100

Christian,

I'm not sure that the word "apply" is quite right, but otherwise I agree
with you; we can be more explicit.

Regards
   Brian

On 31/03/2013 20:31, Christian Huitema wrote:
> The draft would be a bit easier to read if it announced its purpose immediately, both in the abstract and in the introduction. For example, in the abstract, instead of just stating:
> 
>    This document clarifies
>    the status of those bits for interface identifiers that are not
>    derived from an IEEE link-layer address, and updates RFC 4291
>    accordingly.
> 
> You could have written:
> 
>   This document clarifies
>   that these  bits only apply to interface identifiers that are explicitly
>    derived from an IEEE link-layer address, and updates RFC 4291
>    accordingly. 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>  This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title           : The U and G bits in IPv6 Interface Identifiers
> 	Author(s)       : Brian Carpenter
>                           Sheng Jiang
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-6man-ug-00.txt
> 	Pages           : 9
> 	Date            : 2013-03-29
> 
> Abstract:
>    The IPv6 addressing architecture defines a method by which the
>    Universal and Group bits of an IEEE link-layer address are mapped
>    into an IPv6 unicast interface identifier.  This document clarifies
>    the status of those bits for interface identifiers that are not
>    derived from an IEEE link-layer address, and updates RFC 4291
>    accordingly.
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-ug
> 
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-ug-00
> 
> 
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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