Re: Schema OID definition limits

I wrote:
>Mark Hinckley writes:
>> Is there a limit defined in the LDAP RFCs anywhere for the length of
>> the OID value for a schema definition, for example inetOrgPerson is
>> 2.16.840.1.113730.3.2.2, whereas organization is 2.5.6.4.
> 
> I don't think so.  Object identifiers are defined by ASN.1, the LDAP
> RFCs just refer to it.

Whoops - poorly placed sentence.  To clarify: Nor do I know of
limitations in ASN.1:-)

> Finally, your OIDs might meet a quick-and-dirty implementation which
> represents OID components as fixed-size machine integers.  So it may be
> advisable to stick to components < 2**31, and 2nd component < 2**31/40.
> Or nowadays, perhaps I should be saying 63 instead of 31 bits.  (The
> final bit would be for the sign, or for a "this is the last OID
> component" flag.)

For the positive sign, I should have said.  For languages or code which
use signed integers.

-- 
Hallvard