Packed Encoding Rules

protocol, standard (PER) ASN.1 encoding rules for

producing a compact transfer syntax for data structures

described in ASN.1, defined in 1994.

PER provides a much more compact encoding then BER. It

tries to represents the data units using the minimum number of

bits. The compactness requires that the decoder knows the

complete abstract syntax of the data structure to be

decoded, however.

Documents: ITU-T X.691, ISO 8825-2.

(1998-05-19)