Subject: New Issue: Delete inappropriate advice to network operators

From: Robert Elz <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:20:42 +0700

Description of issue: Delete inappropriate advice to network operators
Submitter name: Robert Elz
Submitter email address: [email-masked]
Date first submitted: 2003-02-08
Reference: 
Comment type: ['T'echnical | 'E'ditorial]  T & E
Priority: ['S' Must fix | '1' Should fix | '2' May fix ] 1
Section: 1.2
Rationale/Explanation of issue: The draft attempts to give advice to
	network operators as to how they should build their networks.
	That is out of scope, unjustified, and unnecessary.
Lengthy description of problem:
	The text in section 1.2 explains ...

	"This protocol is intended for small ad-hoc networks..."

	and then goes on to justify that, and give an estimate of what
	is "small" (or can be regarded as that for the purposes of the
	draft).   That's all fine.

	Unfortunately, instead of explaining how to avoid using the
	protocol when the network happens to not be small, the draft
	instead says

	"This does not mean that a host should attempt to count the
         number of other hosts on the link and refuse to operate if it finds
         there are more than 1300."

	which is fine in itself, and then continues

	"It does mean that network operators with
         more than 1300 hosts on a single link may want to consider dividing
         that single link into two or more subnets."

	which is entirely inappropriate for this document.

Requested Change:   Delete the last sentence of section 1.2, and substitute:

	It does mean that network operators with more than 1300 hosts
	on a single link may want to ensure that most of the hosts on the
	link are not assigned link-local addresses.