Re: Calculation of SASL GS2 mechanism names

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@xxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "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.

    >> 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.