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<Second try. I got no response last time.> >>> "Jim Sermersheim" <jimse@novell.com> 7/14/03 3:16:38 PM >>> All, There is the statement in [Protocol] that instructs: "Because of the implied extensibility, clients and servers MUST ignore trailing SEQUENCE elements whose tags they do not recognize." This is basically the same text as RFC2251 (we added the _why_, and the word "trailing"). But I think this falls short of what it really intends to say. I think that what it really intends to say is that: "protocol peers MUST ignore the presence of arbitrary unexpected extension additions above those defined (if any) in a SEQUENCE or SET type, or of an unknown alternative in a CHOICE type, or an unknown ENUMERATION in an enumerated type, or of an unexpected length or value of a type whose constraint is extensible." I just stole most of that from X.680, thus it could be shortened with a reference, but I think the information might be handy. Also, we should likely preserve the "trailing" word. comments? Jim |