Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >> in your original question to the list, you didn't quite make clear >> that your question was with respect to BGP-style transfer of large- >> scale routing information. > I didn't want to limit the scope of the discussion to one particular > type of protocol. Could you stop this abstract nonsense, then? Many old protocols designed for old, slow computers such as telnet/ftp/smtp, does use text. Their replies are structured text mostly with 3 digits. That is, properly designed text based protocols are fine. Note that all you need is EBNF, not XML. Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf