Re: [ASN.1] Encoding of REAL

2003-03-26 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Murali wrote: Dear Experts, I need to know how the PER encoding of REAL value is done. For example, how 3.5 will be encoded? Please give few examples along with encoding procedure. I have read Oliver Dubuisson's book, it is not clear for me. Oliv*i*er Please clarify (say, in a private

Re: [ASN.1] PER encoding

2003-03-19 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Murali wrote: Hi All, I am having doubts on PER encoding. Please help in clearing the issues. *Encoding of Normally small non negative whole number 10.6.2 lause of X691 says that if n = 64 .. But what is the maximum value it can take? If it is less than or equal to 255, why do we

Re: [ASN.1] Please teach me about tagged type.

2003-03-06 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Larmouth) wrote: And of a slightly more advanced nature, you could try the tagging tutorial at http://www.larmouth.demon.co.uk/tutorials/tagging.ppt I own hardcopies of both books, but I was unaware there was such a tutorial. Is there

Re: [ASN.1] Question on BER

2003-02-28 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
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,

Re: [ASN.1] What's the feature of 1997 version which not in 1994 version?

2002-10-29 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
QinPeng wrote: Hi, all! What's the feature of 1997 version which not in 1994 version? Look at Section 6.3.5 of my book that you can download from: http://www.oss.com/asn1/dubuisson.html -- Olivier DUBUISSON france telecom RD DTL/TAL - 22307 Lannion Cedex - France t: +33 2 96 05 38 50 -

Re: [ASN.1] X.694 tool to translate XML Schemas into ASN.1 modules

2002-10-24 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
MARTY Guy wrote: Great news! But, is there any tools that ca do the reverse translation from ASN.1 modules to XML Schemas? None that I know. This is useful in heterogeneous information systems where data can be defined/encoded in XML Schemas/XML or in ASN.1/BER. You can use the ASN.1

Re: [ASN.1] X.694 tool to translate XML Schemas into ASN.1 modules

2002-10-24 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
MARTY Guy wrote: DUBUISSON Olivier wrote : You can use the ASN.1 schema as the central schema and encode either in BER, DER, PER or XER (i.e., XML), or even encode in PER to transmit on a low-bandwith channel and decode then re-encode in XER for display on your PDA, for example

[ASN.1] X.694 tool to translate XML Schemas into ASN.1 modules

2002-10-23 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
It is my pleasure to announce that France Telecom has released on the ASN.1 website a prototype tool for ITU-T Recommendation X.694 (Mapping W3C XML Schema definitions into ASN.1). To use the tool online, go to: http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xsd2asn1 (make sure to read the important notes at the top

[ASN.1] Re: asn1xml Parser of XML Vs. ASN

2002-10-11 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Andrew Fan wrote: That's what I'm searching for. Can I get an free evaluation version? I have visit http://www.oss.com/products/tools.html , but I found no introductions of CAGL. Arghh! Please let us not enter into a new How can I get a demo version? thread! Send such questions to tool

Re: [ASN.1] INAP/MAP specifications

2002-10-04 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Rickard Andersson wrote: Hi! I have been using the specifications from www.itu.int which I have found helpful for obtaining the correct syntax for some protocols such as TCAP. Thanks on behalf of France Telecom (where the work is done) and ITU-T :) Does anyone know of any similar

Re: [ASN.1] bugs

2002-10-03 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Salim Mounir AlAoui wrote: hello all, I am working with ETSI specs, GSMMAP and CAMEL. I make a list each time a new spec comes out on the bugs and typos I found in their ASN1 definitions. Does anyone know to whom i can communicate this reports if it can be of any help I will be happy to

[ASN.1] Re: e-tutorial for ASN.1

2002-09-25 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Jacob Palme wrote: At 19:02 +0200 02-09-24, DUBUISSON Olivier wrote: The e-tutorial is composed of series of exercises, each being dedicated to a particular theme. It is an interactive tool which gradually explores more and more complex uses of the ASN.1 notation. I have tried

Re: [ASN.1] New ASN.1 Tool for 3GPP from Zesium

2002-09-13 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Rick Reed TSE wrote: DUBUISSON Olivier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/09/2002 16:22: This list is not dedicating to any particular tool. Such questions/ remarks should not be sent to this reflector which is dedicated to technical questions on ASN.1. I am a little surprised

Re: [ASN.1] New ASN.1 Tool for 3GPP from Zesium

2002-09-09 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Prasad Vasa wrote: Hello Martin, I feel it would be nice if it's on Internet. Any how, What is the procedure to get the demo CD? How much I need to pay to zesium ? Please let me know. This list is not dedicating to any particular tool. Such questions/ remarks should not be sent to this

Re: [ASN.1] Asn.1 and ROSE problems

2002-08-10 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Title: Re: [ASN.1] Asn.1 and ROSE problems Bernard Kufluk wrote: Hi I am at the early stages in a project involving ASN.1 and ROSE. I have obtained the X.219, 229 etc specs from the ITU and cut and pasted You seem to be using old versions of ROSE. The ASN.1 modules of the

Re: [ASN.1] Integer values ???

2002-07-19 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Title: Re: [ASN.1] Integer values ??? Karimkhan Remtoula wrote: Does anybody know where I can find a tutorial of ASN1-PER encoding/decoding rules ? The two books on ASN.1 that you can freely download from OSS Nokalva's website at http://www.oss.com/asn1/booksintro.html --

Re: [ASN.1] Blaming ASN.1

2002-07-01 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Title: Re: [ASN.1] Blaming ASN.1 Will Bamberg wrote: One thing of interest that surfaced as a result of this close examination is that ASN.1, XML Schema and other similar notations possess similar implementation pitfalls that programmers need to pay close attention to. For

[ASN.1] Dependences (new option of the Asnp tool)

2002-06-27 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Title: Dependences (new option of the Asnp tool) It is my pleasure to inform you that Asnp, our free parser for ASN.1, now supports a new option called '-depend'. Based on the IMPORTS statements, it builds a tree of all modules contained in the files given as input. The ASN.1 module

Re: [ASN.1] CSTA Phase 1. ASN1 file

2002-06-09 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Title: Re: [ASN.1] CSTA Phase 1. ASN1 file Bruno.Konik wrote: Dear Conrad, here is a CSTA phase 1 file that we have moved to X680 so that it must compile with a X680 compiler (the EVENT macro have been replaced by X680 productions). Bruno, please replace all occurences of

[ASN.1] [Fwd: Regarding conversion of a particular ASN1 file into a MIB.]

2002-05-28 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
May 2002 09:06:59 +0200 From: Vijay Sarathy Upparapalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DUBUISSON Olivier FTRD/DTL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mr. Dubuisson, This mail is regarding a small confusion I am caught up with. Scenario:- I want to know if I can generate a MIB file(*.mib) and the corresponding

Re: [ASN.1] Remote-Operations-Notation..........Where I can find it?

2002-05-09 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile my asn1 (makecall), but one import file (Remote-Operations-Notation) cannot be locatet. Where I can find it? In the database of ASN.1 modules on the website of the ITU-T ASN.1 Project:

Re: [ASN.1] At least 1 alt. in ext. root?

2002-04-23 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Egon Andersen, Talura wrote: Paul Long wrote: From the syntax in X.680, it looks like these are illegal constructs: CHOICE { } CHOICE { ... } CHOICE { ..., x X } IOW, there must be at least one alternative in the extension root. Is that true? Paul Long ipDialog, Inc.

Re: [ASN.1] References in X.693 (12/2001)

2002-04-22 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Egon Andersen, Talura wrote: Paul Thorpe wrote: Hi Egon, The copy of X.693 you have is a pre-published version that references other pre-published amendments to X.680. These cross references will be corrected for the appropriate clauses in X.680 (2002) before the actual

Re: [ASN.1] ASN.1 ECN

2002-04-11 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Bujji krishna R B wrote: Hello, I am not sure whether this is the right mailing list to ask about ECN. This is OK. If there is a separate mailing list for ECN do let me know. You can also use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (go to http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/ecn/#mailing-list to see how

Re: SV: [ASN.1] WHAT'S THE MEANING OF { L | H }?

2002-04-02 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Steen Oluf Karlsen wrote: Hi I was translating A-interface message and A-bis interface messages for GSM Phase 1 in a language called FAN.1 back in 1994. (cannot remember what the acronym was for ...) The language was described in a Philips Review. If there are interested readrs I

Re: [ASN.1] WHAT'S THE MEANING OF { L | H }?

2002-03-26 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
QinPeng wrote: SI4 Rest Octets_S ::= {L | HLSA Parameters} {L | H Cell Identity : bit(16)} {L | H LSA ID information} ; This looks like CSN.1, not ASN.1. In other words, you are on the wrong list :) -- Olivier DUBUISSON france telecom RD DTL/TAL - 22307 Lannion Cedex - France t:

Re: [ASN.1] Is PER unaligned always unaligned?

2002-03-21 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Ed Day wrote: Hi Olivier, No, we were still using the 1997 texts. Are the new ones now available? http://ties.itu.int login: asn1 password: notation1 Note that this was announced on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] reflector some weeks ago. These are not the *approved* texts, but we are not

Re: OID Tree to [ASN.1] ANSI TCAP

2002-03-21 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Steen Oluf Karlsen wrote: Ok thanks Only I have to ask this annoying last question - Is there a copyright on the ITU modules and if so in which cases do I violate this copyright ? Yes, the ASN.1 modules are copyrighted because they are excerpts of ITU-T Recommendations. The copyright

Re: [ASN.1] Is PER unaligned always unaligned?

2002-03-19 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Ed Day wrote: Hi, There seems to be some question among some groups that we have dealt with whether PER unaligned is always unaligned. It would seem to me that clause 7.7 is quite clear on this point that padding bits are never inserted, but others we have dealt with claim the note in

Re: [ASN.1] Regd ASN1 Freeware tool

2002-02-25 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
Parag wrote: Dear Sir, Thanks for your suggesstion on using a tool to encode and decode the ASN.1 type of data using BER. Sir, We searched the entire web for a freeware satisfying encoding rules specified in X.690 (1994) but were able to find only an evaluation copy of OSS ASN1C

Re: [ASN.1] bnf of ASN.1

2002-01-27 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
QinPeng wrote: thank you! I want us YACC or Antlr tools to translate the ASN.1 desciption to C data structures. So I want some text of ASN.1 which can be the input of YACC or Antlr. Are you implementing any specific tool? Why not use one of the compilers that are listed at:

Re: [ASN.1] Is this a legal SEQUENCE ?

2002-01-18 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
looking at the ASN.1 2002 draft there is an addition (the last alternative of ComponentTypeLists) related to this issue; the current bnf looks like this (if there is no newer version): SequenceType ::= SEQUENCE { } | SEQUENCE

Re: SV: [ASN.1] Reverse Engineering

2002-01-02 Thread DUBUISSON Olivier
John Larmouth wrote: This looks rather like ASN.1 value notation, for an information object set specification. I suggest you feed it into an ASN.1 pretty printer, when it should become more readable. A pretty-printer is freely available from France Telecom's ASN.1 website at