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Re: [Idr] RFC-compliant use of Extended Length for new BGP attributes

Hi Jeff,

>  > This could cause a packet malformed if the implementaion uses RFC1771 where
>  > Extended Length bit is being checked before sending the update.
>
>  The packet is well formed.  As you say, by 1771 rules, it is
>  semantically incorrect.  The only implementation I would expect to do
>  anything about this would be the ones run by conformance validation tools.
I agree to all you say. However I would say all implementations
following RFC1771 strictly would break.

Thanks,
Vishwas
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