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RE: Comment on ESS and Privacy Marks

1998-03-02 00:02:41
I do not agree. I think we should use the UNIVERSAL tag.  This will align
us with the correct implementation of UTF8 in the future, rather than
creating an octet hole to carry a UTF8.

Russ

At 08:32 AM 2/19/98 -0500, John Pawling wrote:
All,

I agree with Bancroft Scott that ESSPrivacyMark should be re-defined as
follows:

ESSPrivacyMark ::= CHOICE {
   pString      PrintableString (SIZE (1..ub-privacy-mark-length)),
   utf8String   [0] IMPLICIT UTF8String (SIZE (1..ub-privacy-mark-length))
}


Note Bancroft's point as follows:

Another
benefit is that if someone is using a tool that does not support
UTF8String they can simply change it to "[0] OCTET STRING" and get the
same encoding. 

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