On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 01:02:35PM -0500, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > I think the argument I'm trying to make is to be flexible in > > implementation, allowing for future needs and wants--that is "future > > proofing". > > Linux should not have an XML, JSON, or YAML serializer. Linux already > does way too much; let’s not add one more thing to the list. There's always Protobufs[1]! :-) And all of these are better than ASN.1, for which Google already has a limited parser (for x.509 certificates). :-) :-) :-) - Ted