On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:55 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
My attention has recently been drawn to this set of documents:
- draft-legg-xed-asd
- draft-legg-xed-asd-gserei
- draft-legg-xed-asd-xerei
- draft-legg-xed-rxer
- draft-legg-xed-rxer-ei
It's, as far as I can tell, an attempt at a complete
reimplementation of ASN.1 using XML.
Stepping away from the details of the implementation, let me ask what
the result is? (note that I am not an apps person, and have no skin
the the game, and therefore am asking a question trying to get to the
root here)
There are any number of structured data representations around; ASN.1
and XML are two, and one could consider the structure used in RFC
2445 as a third example. People have shied away from ASN.1 citing
complexity. Whatever its warts, XML is pretty readily understood.
Having not read the above and not really caring much what happens in
the layers up in the stratosphere as long as its designers don't by
its sheer weight make the application unusable, is it a bad thing to
provide the expressive nature of ASN.1 in a human-readable and
popular data representation?
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