INTERNET - DRAFT Common Elements of GSER Encodings

Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress". 1. Abstract The Generic String Encoding Rules (GSER) defined in draft-legg-ldap-gser-xx.txt (a work in progress) describe a human readable text encoding for an ASN.1 value of any ASN.1 type. Specifications making use of GSER may wish to provide an equivalent ABNF description of the GSER encoding for a particular ASN.1 type as a convenience for implementors. This document supports such specifications by providing equivalent ABNF for the GSER encodings for ASN.1 types commonly occuring in LDAP syntaxes.