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    In the standard ASN.1 encodings such as uPER, BER etc, the encoding and decoding of any type has no external dependencies. For example, the encoded data for a SEQUENCE OF depends on the number of items in the SEQUENCE OF (the length determinant) and the type of item contained in the SEQUENCE. On the other hand, ACN allows types to be parameterized. For instance, the length of a SEQUENCE OF may be determined by the value of an external field. In this case, the SEQUENCE OF is parameterized and t