RE: Protocol operations proposal deadline
"Glenn Waters" <[email protected]>
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I agree with you Jeurgen. Writing the encoding/decoding code is trivial compared to the work required to implement the semantics. /gww > -----Original Message----- > From: Juergen Schoenwaelder [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 10:29 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Protocol operations proposal deadline > > > >>>>> Dave Shield writes: > > Dave> Well, that was certainly my experience when actually coding > Dave> this. I didn't need to write new parsing routines to handle a > Dave> new format, and adding in a bit of option extraction/insertion > Dave> code *was* easier than writing message/PDU parsing routines > Dave> would have been. > > In the code I am familiar with, parsing a new PDU boils down to a > sequence of calls to the BER encoder/decoder library and filling out a > data structure. This is in my experience trivial compared to the > amount of work needed to implement the semantics. > > /js > > -- > Juergen Schoenwaelder <http://www.informatik.uni- > osnabrueck.de/schoenw/> > >