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ESS-00 Attributes and Values

1997-11-21 05:29:34
I noticed that the 18 November version of the ESS document
includes changes with respect to authenticated attributes
and the syntax for their values.  However, the new version
mixes the attribute names and the type used to represent the
value syntax.  For example, in section 2.8 we find
"receiptRequest" used to identify both a receiptRequest
attribute OID and the receiptRequest value SEQUENCE.  In all
cases, the value syntax type should be represented with a
different identifier.

Section 2.8: receiptRequest ::= SEQUENCE -> ReceiptRequest ::= SEQUENCE
Section 2.10: contentHints ::= SEQUENCE -> ContentHints ::= SEQUENCE
Section 3.2: securityLabel ::= SET -> SecurityLabel ::= SET

Since the OIDs for these and other attributes have been removed
from this document, the document that contains (or will contain)
the OIDs should be referenced.  Since that document doesn't yet
exist maybe there should just be a placeholder for now.

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Scott Hollenbeck (mailto: hollenbe(_at_)east(_dot_)xsis(_dot_)xerox(_dot_)com)
Xerox Special Information Systems
Arlington, Virginia, USA


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