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Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 07 December 2007 20:59 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: "tom.petch" <cfinss@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: [NGO] NETCONF Data types
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:28:23PM +0100, tom.petch wrote:

> On the other hand, it does seem a silly little implementation
> restriction (now that I am not coding an assembler) to have ..16,
> ..32 and ..64; BER.1 did it much better with its any length up to
> approx 2**127 bits.

No size limit means that every implementor chooses his own limit (only
very few people will go and implement arbitrary precision arithmetic
on network devices). I think this very much contradicts the very
purpose of a standard.

/js

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