Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ldapbis-bcp64-01 comments

From: John McMeeking <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 06:34:39 -0600

ASN.1 names can contain hyphens.

From X.680:

11.3 Identifiers

Name of lexical item - identifier

An "identifier" shall consist of an arbitrary number (one or more) of
letters, digits, and hyphens. The initial character
shall be a lower-case letter. A hyphen shall not be the last character. A
hyphen shall not be immediately followed by
another hyphen.

John  McMeeking

                      Hallvard B Furuseth                                                                              
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                      12/09/2003 03:44 AM                                                                              

Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>At 01:28 PM 12/7/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>Section 3.6 (LDAP Result Codes) says:
>>
>>   LDAP result messages carry an resultCode enumerated value to indicate
>>   the outcome of the operation [Protocol].  Each result code consists
>>   of a keyword and a non-negative integer.
>>
>> Which keywords are these?  The ASN.1 names of result codes in
>> [Protocol]?
>
> The keyword is a short name used in specifications (including
> the ASN.1) and elsewhere to refer to the non-negative integer.

Can ASN.1 names contain hyphens?  (The section reserves keywords
starting with "e-" and "x-".)

--
Hallvard