Hi -
On 10/4/2019 10:55 AM, Michael StJohns wrote:
On 10/4/2019 12:48 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
The ITU-T has a much better document naming scheme, and they too have an
immutability property. Thus ASN.1 is the x.680 document series (x.680,
x.681, x.682) and the encoding rules for ASN.1 are the x.690 series,
and each document gets a "version number" in the form of publication
year and month, and old versions remain accessible and unchanged.
*laugh* But then you end up with weirdnesses like X.500 vs X.509. I
*know* why the certificate stuff started out in Directory oh so many
years ago, but in hindsight maybe not where it should be today?
And there are still some of us around who remember when ASN.1 was part
of the
X.400 series... (Though in fairness, ASN.1 has mutated significantly
over the decades.)
If folks think things are immutable, they might need to take a longer
view of history.
Randy
