Early Review of draft-ietf-mpls-mna-usecases-04
review-ietf-mpls-mna-usecases-04-rtgdir-early-dhody-2024-04-13-00

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Document: draft-ietf-mpls-mna-usecases-04
Reviewer: Dhruv Dhody
Review Date: 13 April 2024
Intended Status: Informational

## Summary:

## Major:

- Section 2.x, the listed use-cases lack text that can link them to MNA.
Basically, how do they act as a use case for MNA? What indication and ancillary
data will be carried? I can imagine how but it makes sense for the use-case I-D
to be explicit about it for the reader.

- Sections 3 and 4 read more as a requirement for the MNA solution and not as
use-cases. Perhaps they could be rephrased?

## Minor:

- I found the sentence "This document describes cases that introduce functions
that are based on special processing by forwarding hardware." hard to parse.
Consider rephrasing. Why hardware?

- Add references for special-purpose labels and extended special-purpose labels.

- We need to list a stronger motivation for MNA than just saving
special-purpose label space.

- Change RFC XXXX to RFC 9543

- The NRP Policy is not defined in RFC 9543, maybe the better reference is
draft-ietf-teas-ns-ip-mpls?

- Security consideration, while I agree with the text but consider having some
useful pointers to other I-Ds could be useful.

## Nits:

- Please add MNA in the title of the I-D

- add "working group" at the end of the 2nd sentence in the abstract.

Thanks!
Dhruv