Now I really *am* being patronising - O will hate me! Yes, this is again an absolutely correct answer!

(Hope this thread is near its end!)

John L


DUBUISSON Olivier wrote:
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.


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