Re: Calculation of SASL GS2 mechanism names

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Hartman wrote:

> One question to consider is whether a gss implementation is more
> likely to have the dot-separated OID or the BER form.
>  
Does GSS-API specify how OIDs are stored?

> Also, note that BER is canonical.  Consider the difference between 1.002 and 1.2
>  
I would rather say that the dot-separated form must be canonical, rather 
than forcing people to implement BER encoding in there SASL 
implementations ;-).