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Re: Calculation of SASL GS2 mechanism names


Sam Hartman wrote:


"Alexey" == Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

   Alexey> 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.
>> >> Alexey> Does GSS-API specify how OIDs are stored? 

Yes.

How is it stored?


   >> Also, note that BER is canonical.  Consider the difference
   >> between 1.002 and 1.2
>> >> Alexey> I would rather say that the dot-separated form must be 
   Alexey> canonical, rather than forcing people to implement BER

No, I mean canonical in the sense of there is one canonical encoding.
That is not true for the dot notation.

I meant "canonical == no leading 0s".