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ABNF of numericoid



This thread seems to have been forgotten:

[models] and [bcp64] define numericoid as

      numericoid = number *( DOT number )

It should be ( "0" / "1" / "2" ) 1*( DOT number )
with further restrictions on the second component.

In message http://www.OpenLDAP.org/lists/ietf-ldapbis/200307/msg00063.html,
Steven Legg writes:

> X.680 defers to X.660 for the definition of OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
> but notes that an OBJECT IDENTIFIER must have at least two components.
> I don't have a copy of X.660 to check what other requirements
> there are, however it is worth noting that the BER encoding of
> OBJECT IDENTIFIER only supports values where the first component
> is 0, 1 or 2. If the first component is 0 or 1 then the second
> component must be in the range 0 to 39. If the first component
> is 2 then the second component is unlimited.

-- 
Hallvard