Tom Yu wrote: > > >>>>> "eday" == Ed Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > eday> It is my opinion that the size constraint in this case must be > eday> respected; otherwise, it has no meaning. Clearly, the person > eday> who wrote this definition wanted the bit string to be between 15 > eday> and 32 bits in length, otherwise the size constraint would not > eday> have been added. As to precise language in the standards > eday> stating this, I could not find any. > > I believe size constraints only apply to the _abstract_ value.
You are correct (so is Bruno in his following answer). The BER encoding rules do not use subtype constraints to produce the encoding. -- Olivier DUBUISSON france telecom R&D DTL/TAL - 22307 Lannion Cedex - France t: +33 2 96 05 38 50 - f: +33 2 96 05 39 45 - http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/
