Subject: Re: TSP-05

From: [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:45:49 (NZDT)

Peter Sylvester <[email-masked]> writes:
 
>The main change is that 
>
>  DEFINITIONS EXPLICIT TAGS ::=
>
>With that the EXPLICIT in 
>
>     extensions   [3] EXPLICIT Extensions    OPTIONAL
>
>seems to be redundant to me? 
 
Given that it's usual to use global implicit tags, isn't it kind of risky to 
use a setting which is the opposite to what everyone is expecting?  If you 
drop the global EXPLICIT it'll be the same as the normal default, and the 
redundancy will go away.
 
Peter.