Hi All,

> On Dec 7, 2018, at 11:01 AM, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Alvaro –
>  
> I am not in agreement with your POV.
>  
> The work undertaken for this revision was very specifically to address Errata 
> ID: 5293 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7810) . This was 
> deemed critical because the format of several sub-TLVs was incorrectly 
> specified and we learned that this resulted in an interoperability problem 
> because some implementations chose to include the unneeded reserved field and 
> used a sub-TLV length of 5 whereas other implementations omitted the Reserved 
> field and used the specified length of 4. We wanted to fasttrack this change 
> to avoid further interoperability issues.
>  
> Just prior to preparing for last call Errata ID: 5486 
> (https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5486) was posted. As this was only an 
> editorial change we decided to address that as well.
>  
> There was never an intent to review/alter any other portion of the document. 
> Rather we constrained the changes precisely so that we could publish a 
> corrected version of the RFC ASAP.


correct. This also was pointed out at the time of editing and submission of 
this draft. The WG agreed to move on without res-pinning th whole reviwe 
process exactly for the reasons above.


> Your argument that since we are obsoleting RFC 7810 the entire document is 
> fair game is not consistent with the agreed upon scope of the changes.
> The WG never agreed to open up the document for general revision and I do not 
> believe it should be within the purview of IESG review to alter the scope of 
> the work the WG agreed to take on.
>  
> Suggesting that rather than issue a new version of RFC7810 we should issue a 
> smaller document only with the corrections is a viable option – but IMO makes 
> an unnecessary mess of things.
>  
> As an aside, it is quite frustrating to me that it is almost 9 months since 
> this work was started and we still have yet to complete it. Taking this long 
> to publish a non-controversial and much needed editorial revision is much too 
> long. Though I appreciate we are getting closer, I think this does not speak 
> well of us as an organization. Opening up the document to general review can 
> do nothing but delay this further – making it more likely that additional 
> non-interoperable implementations may be written.


+1.

Thanks.
s.


>  
> Yoshi (or any other IETF participant) is free at any time to raise questions 
> about RFC7810/RFC7471 and the WG can decide whether it agrees that changes 
> are needed. But that is not within the scope of this work.
>  
>    Les
>  
>  
>  
> From: Alvaro Retana <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2018 9:55 AM
> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>; Acee Lindem (acee) 
> <[email protected]>; Christian Hopps <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; [email protected]; Yoshifumi Nishida 
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-lsr-isis-rfc7810bis-03
>  
> On December 5, 2018 at 7:52:00 PM, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) 
> ([email protected]) wrote:
>  
> Les:
>  
> You are right in pointing out that the changes made to rfc7810 are the ones 
> mentioned in the appendix.  That was the motivation that originated this work.
>  
> However, this document doesn’t just modify rfc7810, it formally declares it 
> Obsolete.  That indicates that we (the WG, etc.) are opening up the whole 
> document for review/comments…which obviously means that Yoshi’s comments are 
> not out of scope.  The WG didn’t change anything else (which is ok), but the 
> IETF Last Call exists to include cross-area review and to allow others (e.g. 
> non-WG participants) to comment.  
>  
> In any case, it seems to me that Yoshi’s comments are clarifying questions 
> which may not require changes to the document itself. But I’ll leave that 
> discussion/decision to him and to the TSV ADs.
>  
>  
> Note that if what is wanted (by the WG) is to Update rfc7810 (and not 
> Obsolete it), and constrain the text to be reviewed/commented on, then this 
> is not the right document.  That document would have contained only the 
> changes.  We’re still in time to change the direction.  I’m explicitly cc’ing 
> the lsr-chairs so they can make any needed clarification.
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Alvaro.
>  
>  
> I can appreciate that this may the first time you have looked at RFC7810 - 
> let alone the bis draft. As a result you have commented on content which is 
> common to the bis draft and the RFC it is modifying (RFC 7810). 
> 
> While your questions in isolation may be interesting, I believe they are out 
> of scope for the review of the bis draft. What the bis draft is doing is 
> addressing two modest errata - details of which can be found in 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lsr-isis-rfc7810bis-03#appendix-A 
> Comments on content not related to those changes is out of scope. 
> 
> If you have an interest in this topic and want to comment on the substance of 
> RFC 7810 and its companion document for OSPF RFC 7471, I encourage you to do 
> so. Note that all of your comments (save the one on Security) are also 
> applicable to RFC 7471 - so any agreed upon modification would need to be 
> made to both documents. But I do not want to even start discussing such 
> changes in the context of reviewing the bis draft changes. I hope you can 
> understand why.

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