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- Network Working Group S.E. Hardcastle-Kille
- Requests for Comments 1278 University College London
- November 1991
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- A string encoding of Presentation Address
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- Status of this Memo
- This memo provides information for the Internet community. It
- does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo
- is unlimited.
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- Abstract
- There are a number of environments where a simple string encoding
- of Presentation Address is desirable. This specification defines
- such a representation.
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- RFC 1278 String encoded P-Address November 1991
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- 1 Introduction
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- OSI Application Entities use presentation addresses to address other
- Application Entities. The model for this is defined in [ISO87b].
- Presentation addresses are stored in the OSI Directory using an ASN.1
- representation defined by the OSI Directory [CCI88]. Logically, a
- presentation address consists of:
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- o A presentation selector
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- o A session selector
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- o A transport selector
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- o A set of network addresses
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- The selectors are all octet strings, but often have IA5 character
- representations. The format of network addresses is defined in
- [ISO87a].
- There is a need to represent presentation addresses as strings in a
- number of different contexts. This Internet Draft defines a format
- for use on the Internet. It is for display to human users, and its
- use is recommended whenever this needs to be done. Typically, this
- will be for system managers rather than for end users. It is not
- intended for internal storage.
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- This Internet Draft was originally published as UCL Research Note
- RN/89/14 [Kil89]. It was agreed as a unified syntax for the THORN and
- ISODE projects. It is used throughout ISODE.
- Christian Huitema of Inria and Marshall Rose of PSI Inc. gave much
- useful input to this document.
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- 2 Requirements
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- The main requirements are:
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- o Must be able to specify any legal value.
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- o Should be clean in the common case of the presentation address
- containing network addresses and no selectors.
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- o Must deal with selectors in the following encodings:
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- -- IA5
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- -- Decimal digits encoded as IA5 (this is the most common syntax
- in Europe, as it is required by X.400(84) and should receive a
- straightforward encoding)
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- -- Numeric encoded as a 16 bit unsigned integer (US GOSIP). This
- is mapped onto two octets, with the first octet being the high
- order byte of the integer.
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- -- General Hexadecimal
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- o Should give special encodings for the ad hoc encoding proposed in
- ``An interim approach to use of Network Addresses'' [HK91].
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- -- X.25(80) Networks
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- -- TCP/IP Networks
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- o Should be extensible for additional forms.
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- o Should provide a reasonably compact representation .
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- 3 Format
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- The_BNF_is_given_in_figure_1.__________________________________________
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- <digit> ::= [0-9]
- <other> ::= [0-9a-zA-Z+-.]
- <domainchar> ::= [0-9a-zA-Z-.]
- <hexdigit> ::= [0-9a-fA-F]
- <hexoctet> ::= <hexdigit> <hexdigit>
- <decimaloctet> ::= <digit> | <digit> <digit>
- | <digit> <digit> <digit>
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- <digitstring> ::= <digit> <digitstring> 10
- | <digit>
- <otherstring> ::= <other> <otherstring>
- | <other>
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- <domainstring> ::= <domainchar> <otherstring>
- | <domainchar>
- <hexstring> ::= <hexoctet> <hexstring> | <hexoctet>
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- <dotstring> ::= <decimaloctet> "." <dotstring>
- | <decimaloctet> "." <decimaloctet>
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- <dothexstring> ::= <dotstring> | <hexstring>
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- <presentation-address> ::=
- [[[ <psel> "/" ] <ssel> "/" ] <tsel> "/" ]
- <network-address-list>
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- <network-address-list> ::= <network-address> "_" <network-address-list>30
- | <network-address>
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- <psel> ::= <selector>
- <ssel> ::= <selector>
- <tsel> ::= <selector>
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- <selector> ::= '"' <otherstring> '"' -- IA5
- -- For chars not in this
- -- string use hex
- | "#" <digitstring> -- US GOSIP 40
- | "'" <hexstring> "'H" -- Hex
- | "" -- Empty but present
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- <network-address> ::= "NS" "+" <dothexstring>
- -- Concrete Binary Representation
- -- This is the compact encoding
- | <afi> "+" <idi> [ "+" <dsp> ]
- -- A user oriented form
- | <idp> "+" <hexstring>
- -- ISO 8348 Compatability 50
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- <idp> ::= <digitstring> -
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- <dsp> ::=
- | "d" <digitstring> -- Abstract Decimal
- | "x" <dothexstring> -- Abstract Binary
- | "l" <otherstring> -- IA5: local form only
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- | "RFC-1006" "+" <prefix> "+" <ip>
- [ "+" <port> [ "+" <tset> ]]
- | "X.25(80)" "+" <prefix> "+" <dte> 60
- [ "+" <cudf-or-pid> "+" <hexstring> ]
- | "ECMA-117-Binary" "+" <hexstring> "+" <hexstring>
- "+" <hexstring>
- | "ECMA-117-Decimal" "+" <digitstring> "+"
- <digitstring> "+" <digitstring>
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- <idi> ::= <digitstring>
- <afi> ::= "X121" | "DCC" | "TELEX" | "PSTN" | "ISDN"
- | "ICD" | "LOCAL"
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- <prefix> ::= <digit> <digit>
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- <ip> ::= <domainstring>
- -- dotted decimal form (e.g., 10.0.0.6)
- -- or domain (e.g., twg.com)
- <port> ::= <digitstring>
- <tset> ::= <digitstring>
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- <dte> ::= <digitstring>
- <cudf-or-pid> ::= "CUDF" | "PID" 80
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- ________________________Figure_1:__String_BNF__________________________
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- Four examples:
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- "256"/NS+a433bb93c1_NS+aa3106
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- #63/#41/#12/X121+234219200300
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- '3a'H/TELEX+00728722+X.25(80)+02+00002340555+CUDF+"892796"
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- TELEX+00728722+RFC-1006+03+10.0.0.6
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- Note that the RFC 1006 encoding permits use of either a DNS Domain
- Name or an IP address. The former is primarily for ease of entry. If
- this DNS Domain Name maps onto multiple IP addresses, then multiple
- network addresses should be generated. The DNS Domain Name form is
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- for convenient input. When mapping from an encoded address to string
- form, the IP address form should always be used.
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- 4 Encoding
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- Selectors are represented in a manner which can be easily encoded. In
- the NS notation, the concrete binary form of network address is given.
- Otherwise, this string notation provides a mechanism for representing
- the Abstract Syntax of a Network Address. This must be encoded
- according to Addendum 2 of ISO 8348 [ISO87a].
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- 5 Macros
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- There are often common addresses, for which a cleaner representation
- is desired. This is achieved by use of Macros. If a
- <network-address> can be parsed as:
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- <otherstring> "=" *( any )
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- Then the leading string is taken as a Macro, which is substituted.
- This may be applied recursively. When presenting Network Address to
- humans, the longest available substitution should be used. For
- example:
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- ________________________
- |_Macro_|Value__________ |
- | UK.AC |DCC+826+d110000 |
- |_Leeds_|UK.AC=120______ |
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- Then ``Leeds=22'' would be expanded to ``DCC+826+d11000012022''.
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- 6 Standard Macros
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- No Macros should ever be relied on. However, the following are
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- ________________________________________________
- |_Macro_____________|Value______________________ |
- | Int-X25(80) |TELEX+00728722+X25(80)+01+ |
- | Janet-X25(80) |TELEX+00728722+X25(80)+02+ |
- | Internet-RFC-1006 |TELEX+00728722+RFC-1006+03+ |
- |_IXI_______________|TELEX+00728722+RFC-1006+06+_|
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- 7 References
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- References
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- [CCI88] The Directory --- overview of concepts, models and services,
- December 1988. CCITT X.500 Series Recommendations.
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- [HK91] S.E. Hardcastle-Kille. Encoding network addresses to support
- operation over non-osi lower layers. Request for Comments
- RFC 1277, Department of Computer Science, University College
- London, November 1991.
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- [ISO87a] Information processing systems - data communications -
- network services definition: Addendum 2 - network layer
- addressing, March 1987. ISO TC 97/SC 6.
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- [ISO87b] ISO DIS 7498-3 on naming and addressing, May 1987.
- ISO/IEC/JTC-1/SC 21.
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- [Kil89] S.E. Kille. A string encoding of presentation address.
- Research Note RN/89/14, Department of Computer Science,
- University College London, February 1989.
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- 8 Security Considerations
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- Security considerations are not discussed in this memo.
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- 9 Author's Address
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- Steve Hardcastle-Kille
- Department of Computer Science
- University College London
- Gower Street
- WC1E 6BT
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- EMail: S.Kille@CS.UCL.AC.UK
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