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Re: ASN.1 C++

To: griffin@vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: ASN.1 C++
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:35:02 -0500
Cc: spki@c2.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Feb 1996 08:59:18 EST." <199602251402.GAA09973@infinity.c2.org>
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griffin@vnet.ibm.com writes:
> I've come to believe that ASN.1 is quite powerful when used
> correctly. I would not wish to accept a subset, though there are some
> features that I might add.

[Speaking personally and not as chair]
I've yet to be convinced that the features of ASN.1 are really needed
for this particular application. A fairly small number of data types
are being handled, and efficient encoding isn't particularly
important. I therefore don't see what the advantage of ASN.1 is over
ad hoc binary or ASCII encodings.

Perry

References:

ASN.1 C++

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