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Re: DER in ac509prof-03



Yes. The group was asked if anyone wanted to retain the ASN.1-1993 Appendix, and no one cared enough to speak up.

Russ



At 04:38 PM 05/10/2000 +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:

Tom,

>      The definition Phil referred to ("AttributeValue ::= ANY") should be
> changed to
> "AttributeValue ::= ANY DEFINED BY AttributeType", both here and in A.1 of
> son-of-2459.

No problem. 2459 does it that way in the text, but not in
the ASN.1 module, which I guess must be where I copied it
from.

> Since only SecurityCategory, among the structures specific to
> AC509Prof, actually uses any old-fashioned formats, it would be better
> either to include documentation of the 1993 format in the draft (as in 2459
> and son-of-2459) or to change it to be compatible with INSTANCE OF.

Wasn't there consensus among the folks in Adelaide to expunge the '93
ASN.1 from son-of-2459. I'm happy to follow whatever happens there,
though I can't remember if this has come up on the list.

> Including documentation of the 1993 format would not break existing
> implementations (if there are any),

There are.

Regards,
Stephen.

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