RFC 3642 (rfc3642) - Page 1 of 13
Common Elements of Generic String Encoding Rules (GSER) Encodings
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Network Working Group S. Legg
Request for Comments: 3642 Adacel Technologies
Category: Informational October 2003
Common Elements of Generic String Encoding Rules (GSER) Encodings
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The Generic String Encoding Rules (GSER) describe a human readable
text encoding for an Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) value of
any ASN.1 type. Specifications making use of GSER may wish to
provide an equivalent Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) description
of the GSER encoding for a particular ASN.1 type as a convenience for
implementors. This document supports such specifications by
providing equivalent ABNF for the GSER encodings for ASN.1 types that
commonly occur in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
syntaxes.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Separators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4. ASN.1 Built-in Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
5. ASN.1 Restricted String Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Directory ASN.1 Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. Intellectual Property Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10. Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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