[saag] Re: Relative OIDs are the simpler form of OID (Re : A simpler form of OID)

Nico Williams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.saag
Message-ID <aMwnAMQKyu/IJ+Tc@ubby>
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 10:44:09AM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2025-09-18, at 07:50, Nico Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > RELATIVE-OID
> 
> CBOR has a tag (extended data type) for this (tag number 110, see RFC 9090), for pretty much the reasons given.

About 20 years ago we considered using relative OIDs for new typed holes
in Kerberos also for these reasons.

Every OID codec has a relative OID codec hiding inside it.  So we're
talking about spec and code reuse.

I think that's the right approach for Phillip.

Nico
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