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Hi Joe, My point is that when Usage Mask was defined as it is, a bit mask type should have been defined, not make some special case for it so that servers have to go "oh this is a usage mask I have to do something special" and on top of that "I have to be checking for usage mask all the time ...

Then get rid of Usage Mask as a bit map from KMIP. John Green From: kmip@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:kmip@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Mark Joseph Sent: Friday, 6 January 2017 1:03 PM To: John Green Cc: Anthony Berglas ; OASIS KMIP Technical Committee Subject: ...

Thanks Mark, Yes they are but it becomes a problem when you need them all and even search for a combination. Besides the bit mask is completing the types properly for KMIP. Otherwise why did Usage Mask need to be special? Regards John From: Mark Joseph [mailto:mark@p6r.com] ...

Hi Anthony, Before everyone gets carried away with the PKCS#11 flags how about adding a bit map type to KMIP. Nothing annoys me more that the fact that Usage Mask is treated especially. Define a bit map data type and its special status disappears at least as far as an exception on what ...