Hello I have been selected to do a routing directorate “early” review of this draft. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy/ The routing directorate will, on request from the working group chair, perform an “early” review of a draft before it is submitted for publication to the IESG. The early review can be performed at any time during the draft’s lifetime as a working group document. The purpose of the early review depends on the stage that the document has reached. For more information about the Routing Directorate, please see https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/rtg/RtgDir Document: draft-name-version.txt Reviewer: your-name Review Date: date Intended Status: copy-from-I-D Summary: I have some minor concerns about this document that I think should be resolved before it is submitted to the IESG. This document provides a means for a head end, or an entity acting on behalf of the head end, to report in BGP-LS the status of Segment Routing Policy Candidate Paths. The draft provides a good overview of the way SR Policies are structured, and the usage of candidate paths. The reader does need familiarity with the SR Policy-related RFCs, which while it causes some work is appropriate given that duplicating the material would be an invitation to inconsistency. As a reader, I particularly appreciated that each item refers to the specific section and subsection of the relevant RFC. There are no Major issues with this document Minor comment: The description of the Metric Margin in section 5.6.6. SR Metric Constraint Sub-TLV says that it can either be an absolute value or a percentage of the minimum margin. But the text does not seem to specify the encoding for the percentage case. (For the absolute case I presume the encoding is based on the defining RFC. As an editorial matter, one could say that.) This also applies to the metric margin description in section 5.9.SR Segment List Metric Sub-TLV Editorial comment: The text in the U-flag of section 5.3 seems to say that the U-flag being clear indicates the same things as the U flag being set. I am sure that is not the intent. Particular sinc ethere is a dangling "either". Please edit.