Re: negative integers in ObjectIdentifierValue?

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From: Bancroft Scott
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 14:34

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

>While I'm sure this was not the intent, it appears that negative integers
>are valid within an ObjectIdentifierValue.
...
>Has the intent always been to allow the use of negative integers?

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.

Bancroft Scott

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