IESG Comment 41

From: Adrian Farrel

Description: Section 3.4

Say that peer A wishes to form a direct connection to peer B.

The thing that triggers it to "wish" is interesting and might benefit from a cross-reference to the appropriate part of this I-D.

In general, a peer needs to maintain connections to all of the peers near it in the Overlay Instance and to enough other peers to have efficient routing (the details depend on the specific overlay).
is tautology. "Near" is a trocky word! You probably mean "near in the underlying Internet topology", but unless you are going to describe a way of knowing that (ALTO?) you can't leverage it. On the other hand,
"near" in the overlay network means that there are connections (hence the tautology).

Also:
However, a peer should try to maintain the specified link set and if it detects that it has fewer direct
connections, should form more as required. I don't find information about how that link set is specified.

Notes: Add example cause. Explain that "Near" is within the context of the overlay, not in the physical topology.

Delete topology-specific language. Make sure the topic is explained in the CHORD section.