3gpp2 parameter starts with '\0'

[Alan DeKok]

lamersons wrote:
> Thank you very much, changing it to octets gave me nice ascii look of esn.
> Vendor is Huawei.

  OK.

> to official letter to huawei i got this answer listed below.
> ----------
> Good day,
> 
>             I would like to inform that our BSC sends ESN according the
> 3GPP2 “Interoperability Specification (IOS) for cdma2000 Access Network
> Interfaces — Part 7 (A10 and A11 Interfaces)” (see bellow). BSC sending the
> ESN refer to the protocol, if the ESN number digit less than 15, should use
> 0 to fill (8-bit ASCII “0” symbol is /0). 
> According our analyses, your AAA server does not follow the 3GPP2
> specification.

  Hmm...  For one, the 3GPP2 documentation appears to disagree with
itself.  The ESN is clearly stated to be ASCII, as I pointed out.
Having *another* document state that it contains NUL bytes is just weird.

  Oh well.

  I'll go change the dictionaries to say that the data type for ESN is
"octets".  Then, other people will complain that they don't see the
ASCII text.  <sigh>

  And did they respond on the Acct-Session-Id issue?  Their NAS is
clearly violating the specifications...

  Alan DeKok.