Re: Last Call: draft-mcwalter-langtag-mib (Language Tag MIB) to Proposed Standard

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Thu, 15 February 2007 01:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-mcwalter-langtag-mib (Language Tag MIB) to Proposed Standard
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Doug Ewell scripsit:

> Since tags of 1 character are never well-formed, I suggest that the 
> definition:
> 
>   SYNTAX      OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..60))
> 
> be amended to exclude the 1-character case.  I assume that a zero-length 
> tag, while also not defined in RFC 4646, was included in the I-D to 
> allow the special case of "no tag."

AFAIK, ASN.1 does not allow sizes like (0, 2..60).  I wouldn't even
bother with this change.

-- 
John Cowan    cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
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