[ASN.1] Presentation to UN/ECE Business Objects Summit

2000-11-17 Thread John Larmouth
, as an indication of current thinking concerning ASN.1. They are attached to this mailing. Replies are not needed. John L Prof John Larmouth 1 Blueberry Road, Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 3LS

Re: [ASN.1] Extensions and presence of each addition.

2001-05-02 Thread John Larmouth
Benoit POSTE wrote: John Larmouth wrote: Benoit POSTE wrote: Or is the presence of each addition compulsory (baring DEFAULT or OPTIONAL components) if a later addition is present? Yes. Presence of a later addition makes presence of an earlier one mandatory. If the earlier one

Re: [ASN.1] BER/DER encoding of a Set

2001-07-11 Thread John Larmouth
Bancroft Scott wrote: Oops! You have detected a bug in the X.680, as AdditionalComponentTypeList is not even defined. Is this an agreed defect, and is some-one recording it? -- Prof John Larmouth 1 Blueberry Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bowdon

Re: [ASN.1] examples of unaligned PER

2001-07-16 Thread John Larmouth
informations on both topics on the net :). HTH, Benoit Poste. -- Prof John Larmouth 1 Blueberry Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bowdon Tel: +44 161 928 1605 Cheshire WA14 3LSFax: +44 161 928 8069 England

Re: [ASN.1] BER: 1990 vs 1997

2001-10-22 Thread John Larmouth
None. John L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Could someone please point out the differences for BER encoding between ASN:1990 and ASN:1997 ? Thanks in advance Shiv -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services) 1 Blueberry Road

Re: [ASN.1] asn specification

2001-10-25 Thread John Larmouth
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Re: [ASN.1] Dynamic ObjectSets

2001-11-23 Thread John Larmouth
that the Objects in ObjectSet 'C' can only be determined at runtime (in order to allow for Objects being added to, or deleted from, the ObjectSets 'A' and 'B')? -- John Birrell - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol

Re: SV: [ASN.1] Reverse Engineering

2002-01-01 Thread John Larmouth
. This does not look too difficult, but formatting some of it first would make it easier. Once you have the IOC definition, you have a valid piece of ASN.1 specification, and ASN.1 tools would let you do quite a few things with it. John L -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training

Re: [ASN.1]

2002-01-31 Thread John Larmouth
Name: strange.iac strange.iacType: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) Encoding: base64 -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services) 1 Blueberry Road

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

2002-03-21 Thread John Larmouth
Objective Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (484) 875-3020 (main) (610) 608-4930 (mobile) (610) 321-0361 (fax) (877) 307-6855 (toll-free) -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services) 1 Blueberry Road Bowdon

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

2002-03-26 Thread John Larmouth
, you are on the wrong list :) I disagree. You are on the right list - but you are using the wrong notation! ;-) -- Rick Reed - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+44 1455 55 96 55 Fax:+44 1455 55 96 58 Mob.:+44 7970 50 96 50 -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol

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

2002-03-29 Thread John Larmouth
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: +33 2 96 05 38 50 - f: +33 2 96 05 39 45 - http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/ -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol

Re: [ASN.1] characterString valid set

2002-06-05 Thread John Larmouth
1-732-302-9669 x-200 Fax :1-732-302-0023 http://www.oss.com -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services) 1 Blueberry Road Bowdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheshire

Re: [ASN.1] Question on XER encoding of SEQUENCE OF element types

2002-07-04 Thread John Larmouth
of DefinedType. Am I missing something? Regards, Ed Day Principal Engineer Objective Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (484) 875-3020 (main) (610) 608-4930 (mobile) (610) 321-0361 (fax) (877) 307-6855 (toll-free) -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol

Re: [ASN.1] Question on XER encoding of SEQUENCE OF element types

2002-07-09 Thread John Larmouth
it is not. The proposed ammended text would make it clear. Regards, Ed - Original Message - From: John Larmouth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 5:29 AM Subject: Re: [ASN.1] Question on XER encoding of SEQUENCE OF element types (I

Re: [ASN.1] Question on XER encoding of SEQUENCE OF element types

2002-07-09 Thread John Larmouth
Maybe my last answer was not so good! It was factually correct, and the minimum change. However, I think the spirit of your example is that the type filling the ANY is fully determined by the value of errorId. Yes? In that case, you would be better to use the built-in class TYPE-IDENTIFIER,

Re: [ASN.1] WITH-COMPONENTS creates new type or just semantically constrains?

2002-07-17 Thread John Larmouth
, aRequiredThing INTEGER } Paul Long ipDialog, Inc. -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services) 1 Blueberry Road Bowdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheshire WA14 3LS

Re: [ASN.1] WITH-COMPONENTS creates new type or just semantically constrains?

2002-07-17 Thread John Larmouth
Figures B.1 and B.2). This confirms the interpretation I gave below: A is a new type, defined from B, but with the same set of values, and with a value mapping between the two types. John L John Larmouth wrote: Paul Long wrote: Paul, I guess it depends on what you mean by a new type

[ASN.1] ASN.1 recognised as an XML Schema notation

2002-07-28 Thread John Larmouth
I thought that some of you on this list might be interested in one of the outcomes of the latest MoU MG (Memorandum of Understanding Management Group) meeting. The MoU is a document signed by ITU-T and ISO and IEC and UN/CEFACT and OASIS saying that they would collaborate on and coordinate the

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

2002-08-10 Thread John Larmouth
experience of this and is this normal ? (Am I going about this completely the wrong way ?) Thanks Bernard Kufluk, Websphere Voice Response for Aix, Hursley Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01962 817643 -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol

Re: [ASN.1] BER: minimum number of bytes?

2002-10-01 Thread John Larmouth
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Re: [ASN.1] Question on BER

2003-02-28 Thread John Larmouth
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Re: [ASN.1] Question on BER

2003-02-28 Thread John Larmouth
Tom Yu wrote: I believe size constraints only apply to the _abstract_ value. This is suggested by section 11.2.2 of X.690:2002. I believe the only way to specify this constraint on the length of the encoded bitstring would be to somehow utilize the ECN, with which I am not really familiar. You

Re: [ASN.1] Question on BER

2003-02-28 Thread John Larmouth
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. -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development

Re: [ASN.1] Question on BER

2003-03-01 Thread John Larmouth
is and what is not a valid protocol message - not merely what is valid ASN.1. Phil Griffin John Larmouth wrote: This one is very tricky. Trailing zero bits are not significant when there are named bits. The size constraint has not been violated by the encoded value. What has been transferred

Re: [ASN.1] Question on BER

2003-03-03 Thread John Larmouth
) is not allowed. So for the decoder (in this case) would means invalid value and decoding error when the SizeConstraint is violated. Is this right? Ed --- John Larmouth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is absolutely no reason why any tool should not enforce constraints, whatever the encoding

Re: [ASN.1] Question on BER

2003-03-03 Thread John Larmouth
that the presence or absence of trailing zerors remains meaningless for the application(no semantics should be assosicated with this). This rule has been changing depending on the versions of the ASN.1 standard; it should therefore be applied with great care. ... Ed --- John Larmouth [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2003-03-05 Thread John Larmouth
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[ASN.1] Re: ASN.1 - control structure

2003-08-06 Thread John Larmouth
this phrase in the subject line of their first mailing to me. Thanks. Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services Ltd) 1 Blueberry Road Bowdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheshire WA14 3LS(put Hi John

Re: [ASN.1] Max value of OBJECT IDENTIFIER's 2nd component

2004-04-04 Thread John Larmouth
encode all OBJECT IDENTIFIERs:-( -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth TPDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services Ltd) 1 Blueberry Road Bowdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheshire WA14 3LS England Tel: +44 161 928 1605Fax: +44 161 928

Re: [ASN.1] GDMO/CMIP, WSDL-XML/SOAP-XML, FWS-ASN.1/SOAP-ASN.1

2004-04-24 Thread John Larmouth
Manohar Naidu Ellanti wrote: So it became a necessity to use our own binary encoding (the method we used was similar to x.finf - all infosets in the XML documents were coded/given type code). Politically - is it too late to merge the two pieces of work and agree a common encoding? It would be

Re: [ASN.1] tagging

2004-06-19 Thread John Larmouth
this DEFINITIONS IMPLICIT TAGS ::= BEGIN Now, I am not sure when the ObjectValue.direct option is used, what will be the tag of Type object? Is the [0] Tag going to be implicit? If the Type is is CHOICE or ANY, the tag must be explicit, am I right? Thanks Vit -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth