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

• To: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!)and Binary XML not needed...
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:30:53 +0100
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• Organization: Expway
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Alaric B Snell wrote:
> Yeah... the shortage of ASN.1 tools [expletive deleted]. There's some really lovely 
> tools you can pay for, but that situation locks out experimenters, open 
> source folks, etc.
> 
> Who's up for a project to build an open source ASN.1 toolkit?

There seems to be quite a few half-baked Open Source tools for ASN.1 
that seem to have stopped at supporting BER and a subset of the abstract 
syntax that they deemed useful, but never its entirety. Do the ASN.1 
folks consider this a problem? It certainly has caused me to try and use 
it, and give up in the past for I didn't have time to fix the tools. 
What is the generally admitted reason for this? Spec complexity? Lack of 
interest? Something else?

-- 
Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
Research Scientist, Expway      http://expway.com/
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