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

• To: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• 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 12:19:55 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3FA684A3.7060507@d...>

On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 11:38 America/Detroit, Rich Salz wrote:

>> What are some success stories for ASN.1? LDAP has been mentioned;  
>> what else?
>
> Public-key cryptography (certificates, CRL's, etc)
> S/MIME, which is to say most encrypted email
> SNMP and therefore "all" network management
> The international telephone switching system.
> Kerberos.
>

Is it just me, or does this seem to be in rather sharp contradiction to 
the assertions about the primacy of syntax in Real World, scalable 
systems that the TAG seems to want to make?

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