Ketan -

I don't want to be overly prescriptive here.
The need for supporting backwards compatibility is limited by the amount of 
existing deployment by implementations that chose the "length 5" solution - and 
hopefully any such issues will be short-lived as the problematic 
implementations get upgraded.

But If there is a need for backwards compatibility it is possible that both 
transmit/receive are required. This is a judgment call for implementers and the 
new text in the draft is not meant to tell implementers what they SHOULD do - 
only to remind them that this may be an issue which they will have to consider. 
If they think receive only is sufficient that's fine, but it is beyond what I 
think the draft needs to say.

   Les


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:29 AM
> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>; Acee Lindem (acee)
> <[email protected]>; Christian Hopps <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Lsr] WG Last Call for draft-ietf-lsr-isis-rfc7810bis-00
> 
> Hi Les,
> 
> This sounds good. I would suggest being liberal in receive (i.e. accept and
> interpret the incorrect encoding) and there is no need to send that erroneous
> encoding.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ketan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
> Sent: 17 July 2018 13:30
> To: Ketan Talaulikar (ketant) <[email protected]>; Acee Lindem (acee)
> <[email protected]>; Christian Hopps <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Lsr] WG Last Call for draft-ietf-lsr-isis-rfc7810bis-00
> 
> Ketan -
> 
> Thanx for taking on the role of shepherd.
> 
> I am attaching some proposed diffs which I think addresses your concern.
> Let me know if this suffices and we can publish an update.
> 
>    Les
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 6:55 AM
> > To: Acee Lindem (acee) <[email protected]>; Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
> > <[email protected]>; Christian Hopps <[email protected]>;
> > [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [Lsr] WG Last Call for draft-ietf-lsr-isis-rfc7810bis-00
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was reviewing this draft as the Shepherd. It is a fairly simple and
> > straightforward bis update to RFC7810 to fix an encoding error.
> >
> > There is one point that I would like the authors and WG to consider.
> >
> > The draft in the appendix talks about two interpretations of the
> > erroneous sub- TLVs and from the conversation on the list I get the
> > impression that there are at least two implementations out there which
> > did different interpretations. Do we want to consider putting in a
> > suggestion (i.e. not normative perhaps) that implementations updated
> > to this specifications accept the sub-TLV with the Reserved field
> > included and size 5? So they don't consider such an encoding as error or
> malformed on reception?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ketan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lsr <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Acee Lindem (acee)
> > Sent: 18 June 2018 17:38
> > To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>; Christian Hopps
> > <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Lsr] WG Last Call for draft-ietf-lsr-isis-rfc7810bis-00
> >
> > Hi Les,
> > Yes - the Working Group Last call has completed. We'll find a shepherd
> > and request publication.
> > Thanks,
> > Acee
> >
> > On 6/15/18, 10:49 AM, "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >     WG chairs -
> >
> >     Can we consider WG last call completed? (It has been more than 3
> > weeks...)
> >
> >     Would really like to get this small but important correction
> > published ASAP
> >
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