I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at < http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq>. Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document: draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-relay-reply-04 Relayed Echo Reply mechanism for LSP Ping Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 8-October-2014 IETF LC End Date: 13-October-2014 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: This document is not ready for publication as a Proposed Standard Major issues: There is either a major technical flaw in this document, or there is a need for significantly better explanation. The following is what I was able to understand from reading the document. The procedure in the document calls for a responding or relaying LSR to search the response addresses from the top to the bottom (top being the originator of the request, bottom being visible originators). The responder then sends the reply to the first usable address it can find in the stack. Usable is variously described as "public routable" and as "routable" (in sections 4.2), the converse is described as "unroutable" in section 4.3, while section 4.4 uses "routable". If it means "routable", then this assumes that the private addresses used by one AS will not happen to also be used in another AS (which would make them routable in that domain, directing the reply to completely the wrong place. If it means "publicly routable", this would seem to fail since routers do not know whether routable addresses are public, private, or simply not martian. Minor issues: The procedures assume that border routers will know the correct address to put in the reply stack. It is not bovious that even if the router has a public address, it will get put on. The requirement stated here is that the address put on be the same one used to originate the reply. Which would seem likely to be na internal address in many cases. The procedure for setting k=0 allowing entries to be removed from the stack seems fragile. It relies on routers being able to determine that their address will not be needed for relay by the next hop. Nits/editorial comments: Some of the procedure for originating a reply is described in section 4.2 on Receiving a request, rather than in seciton 4.3 on originating the reply. (Information such as the address to put on the stack, where it goes on the stack, and the handling of the reply packet being too large all belong in 4.3.)