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Re: going back to stone axes

To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Subject: Re: going back to stone axes
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:08:05 -0500
Cc: spki@c2.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:39:10 +0100." <199602270939.KAA16197@dale.uninett.no>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
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Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no writes:
> note that when you did the data format you described, you did some
> assumptions:
> - By choosing 32-bit number of seconds from 1/1 1970, you decided that
>   dates before 1970 or after 2135 were not interesting.
> - By choosing a length-delimited string format, you chose to limit the length
>    of strings.
> 
> I find that ASN.1 is sometimes useful to document these assumptions.

One can document them, however, without using ASN.1. The two lines you
just mentioned were nearly sufficient documentation.

Perry

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