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1.1       root        1: -- This specification is in BNF
                      2: -- Comments start with two dashes
                      3: 
                      4: <a> ::= any of the 52 upper and lower case IA5 letters
                      5: <d> ::= any IA5 digit 0-9
                      6: <k> ::= any of th 52 upper and lower case IA5 letters, IA5 digits,
                      7:                and "-" (hyphen)
                      8: <p> ::= any IA5 character in ASN.1 PrintableSting
                      9: <CRLF> ::= IA5 Newline
                     10: <letterstring> ::= <a> | <a> <letterstring>
                     11: <numericstring> ::= <d> | <d> <numericstring>
                     12: <keystring> ::= <k> | <k> <keystring>
                     13: <printablestring> ::= <p> | <p> <printablestring>
                     14: -- The first notation is to specify Object Identifiers.
                     15: -- These have the basic (BNF):
                     16: 
                     17: <numericoid> ::= <numericstring> | <numericstring> "." <numericoid>
                     18: 
                     19: 
                     20: -- We define a table which gives a mapping of generic OIDs to strings:
                     21: -- and a possible abbreviated form of the name
                     22: 
                     23: <oidkeytable> ::= <oidkeyentry> | <oidkeyentry> <CRLF> <oidkeytable>
                     24: <oidkeyentry> ::= <abbrstring> ":" <numericoid>
                     25: <abbrstring>  ::= <keystring> | <keystring> "," <keystring>
                     26: 
                     27: -- For example:
                     28: -- UCL :0.3.2342.19200149
                     29: -- country,c :2.5.4.6
                     30: 
                     31: -- Tables of this form will be read in by every QUIPU DSA, to give it a set
                     32: -- of OID strings forms, and abbreviations
                     33: 
                     34: -- A general BNF of oid is now given:
                     35: 
                     36: <oid> ::= <keystring> "." <numericoid> | <keystring> | <numericoid>
                     37: 
                     38: -- For example, ``UCL.5'' gives OID 5 as allocated by UCL, ``C'' gives the
                     39: -- standard country oid.
                     40: 
                     41: - We define a table for attribute values:
                     42: 
                     43: <attrTable> ::= <attrEntry> | <attrEntry> <CRLF> <attrTable>
                     44: <attrEntry> ::= <oidkeyentry> ":" <attrEncoding>
                     45: <attrEncoding> ::=  "ObjectClass" | "DN" | "CaseIgnoreString" | 
                     46:                     "CaseExactString" | "PrintableString" | "CountryString" | 
                     47:                     "Guide" | "PostalAddress" | "TelephoneNumber" | 
                     48:                     "telexNumber" | "TelexTerminalIdentifier" | 
                     49:                     "FacsimileTelephoneNumber" | "NumbericString" | 
                     50:                     "DestinationString" | "PresentationAddress" | 
                     51:                     "OID" | "OctetString" | "IA5String" | "Photo" | 
                     52:                     "Mailbox" | "UTCTime" | "DeliveryMethod"  
                     53:                     "Integer" | "Boolean" | "Password"
                     54:                     "ACL" | "Schema" | "Update" |
                     55:                     <attrASN>
                     56: 
                     57: <attrASN> ::= <keystring>
                     58:        -- defined, but unknown syntax - treated as ``ASN''
                     59: 
                     60: -- For example:
                     61: -- description: attributetype.13: CASEIGNORESTRING
                     62: 
                     63: -- Finally we define an object class table:
                     64: 
                     65: <ocTable> ::= <ocEntry> | <ocEntry> <CRLF> <ocTable>
                     66: <ocEntry> ::= <ocData> | <ocMacro>
                     67: <ocData>  ::= <oidkeyentry> ":" <strList> ":" <strList> ":" <strList>
                     68: --                               :(hierarchy):(must contain):(may contain)
                     69: <ocMacro>    :: = <keystring> "=" <strList>
                     70: 
                     71: <strList> ::= <keystring> | <keystring> "," <strList> |
                     72: -- Note the final `|' to permit the null string
                     73: 
                     74: -- For example;
                     75: -- localeAttributeSet = facsimileNumber,isdnAddress,telephoneNumber, ...
                     76: -- country: objectclass.2 : top: countryname: description,searchguide
                     77: -- organisationalPerson: person: : localeAttributeSet,OU,title,...
                     78: 

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