I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed by the IESG for the IETF Chair. Please treat these comments just like any other last call comments. For more information, please see the FAQ at . Document: draft-freytag-lager-variant-rules-02.txt Reviewer: Francis Dupont Review Date: 20170121 IETF LC End Date: 20170214 IESG Telechat date: unknown Summary: Not Ready Major issues: this document is not understable at all without a previous reading of RFC7940 Minor issues: None Nits/editorial comments: - IDN is not a well known abbrev so must be expanded in Abstract and in the body (cf for the list of abbrevs http://www.rfc-editor.org/materials/abbrev.expansion.txt) - title page 1: likely should be changed to include more context - ToC page 1 and A page 19: Acknowledgements -> Acknowledgments - 1 page 2: please add more context from the beginning (or simply stands that to read the document one must know RFC 7940) Regards Francis.Dupont at fdupont.fr PS: I have not (yet) read RFC 7940 (I review paper I-Ds in public transportation so without access to the RFC collection :-).