Re: negative integers in ObjectIdentifierValue?

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From: Bancroft Scott
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 13:08

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mds@hpcndaw.CND.HP.COM (Mark Smith) writes:

|>No, it never was the intent to allow the use of negative numbers within
|>an ObjectIdentifierValue.  Note in ISO 8825 (1990), clause 22.2, it states
|>that each subidentifier is an unsigned binary number.

|So then, is there a defect in section 28.4 ??  Should 28.4 be limited to
|a reference to an integer with a non-negative value ?

I agree.  I'll submit it as a defect.

Bancroft Scott

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From: baos@caip.rutgers.edu (Bancroft Scott)
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Subject: Re: negative integers in ObjectIdentifierValue?
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Date: 12 Apr 92 13:08:01 GMT
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