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As a result of the Sydney WG2 meeting, the proposed amendment to ISO
8348/Add2 to remove the preferred decimal encoding will be sent out for
ballot as ISO 8348/PDAM 4.

This admendment does not preclude the use of the decimal encoding, it
simply removes its specification (and the corresponding requirement
that all NSAPs can be encoded using it) from the scope of the
Addressing Addendum.   This requirement was the limiting factor in
the restrictions placed upon the length of DSPs with binary 
abstract syntax. (You can look at the scheme for decimal encoding of
DSPs with binary abstract syntax [8.3.2.d] and verify that the values given
in table 3 represent the largest (measured in octets) binary value that
can be encoded into a 40 decimal digit NSAP after encoding the IDP).

Another minor change proposed by PDAM4 is in the reference publication format.
The symbol "+" will be used instead of "/" to separate the IDP from the DSP
in the reference publication format.

The amendment has received only positive feedback during its discussion
at the Sydney meeting and previous comment period.  It should progress
through the ballot process fairly quickly.

dougm
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