Re: BER encoding of Unsigned32 and BITS

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> Kwok Ho Chan writes:

[...]

Kwok> <KHC> The SPPI (RFC 3159) does not list all types used in PIBs,
Kwok> it only indicate the ones different from SMI.  The ones that are
Kwok> not defined in SPPI are assumed to be same as in SMI.  This is
Kwok> stated in SPPI, section 2 on page 4 as: "This document specifies
Kwok> the SPPI also via a ASN.1 definition, which is a modified
Kwok> version of the SMI's definition, together with descriptive text
Kwok> for only those elements in the SPPI's ASN.1 definition which
Kwok> have differences from the SMI's.  For elements in the ASN.1
Kwok> definition which have no descriptive text in this specification,
Kwok> the reader is referred to the SMI's descriptive text for that
Kwok> element."

Kwok, please note that the serialization of BITS into OCTET STRING
values is not defined in the SMI and hence your comment does not
really help.

/js

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