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Re: ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!) and Bin

• To: <bob@w...>
• Subject: Re: ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!) and Binary XML not needed...
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:37:45 -0500
• Cc: <tpassin@c...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <001a01c3a224$c71fac90$650aa8c0@BOBDEV>

On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 11:08 America/Detroit, Bob Wyman wrote:
>


> 	Complete commercial implementations are available, it would be
> hard to justify their cost if they weren't. The difference is that the
> commercial projects are addressing the needs of hundreds of projects
> which represent enough variety in their requirements that a full ASN.1
> implementation is needed to satisfy them all. Also, since people are
> paying money for the stuff, they tend to complain louder and expect
> rapid response whenever it is found that something that they need from
> an ASN.1 standard is not implemented properly in the commercial tool.
>

Sounds like SGML circa 1996!  Maybe it's time for a serious refactoring 
of ASN.1 to find the 80/20 point in there.   Maybe ASN.2 could be to 
ASN.1 what XML is to SGML.

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