On Nov 6, 2022, at 1:41 PM, Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have no objection to this document being published, but I do request a small editorial change. > > Section 2.3 says: > > Although such requests are rare, registrations can be deleted. When > a registration is deleted, all identifying information is removed > from the registry, and the value is marked as "returned." Returned > values will not be made available for re-assignment until all other > unassigned values have been exhausted. > > It would be helpful to say that the upper bound is described in the next section. Thanks! We'll do that in the next draft. > By the way, many common tools deal with OID elements much larger than 2**32-1. > > The dumpasn1 tool will properly display this OID: > > 0 14: OBJECT IDENTIFIER '1 3 6 1 4 1 4611686018427387903' > > But, dumpasn1 has trouble with bigger element values. The pyasn1 library does fine with much bigger values. The decision to not have IANA have a registry with more than 4 billion entries was made for reasons other than external tooling. :-) --Paul Hoffman
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