Re: What I see as problems to solve ... and a strawman solution

[email protected] (Shawn C. Masters)  wrote on 02.02.04 in <[email protected]·3>:

> 	The problems you are describing with ASN.1 are really the problems
> with how it is used inside X.400.  It is capable of doing anything XML can
> do other then being easily human readable/writeable.  I wouldn't dismiss it.
> The basic advantages are large when lots of processing is required (like on
> a busy mail server).  Handling of binary data without encoding will reduce
> the bandwidth and processing footprint.  Encoding numbers and date/times
> prevents the requirement to reparse.

My point about ASN.1 was how easy it is to compatibly expand for  
originally-unforseen things. My experience with CSTA tells me ASN.1 isn't  
particularly good at doing that.

If all your data looks like oid/primitive data pairs, you can do an SNMP  
and be happy. But trying to retrofit something like MIME without getting  
rather seriously incompatible ... I don't see it.


MfG Kai