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by d--b
1619 days ago
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Back when I was in school in 2004, I had a teacher who had worked on the ASN.1 spec. In 2004, XML was all the rage. People would create "XML startups", and Microsoft did SOAP and some other guys XHTML, and XML schemas, semantic web and so on. I remember that teacher being so upset that XML got big and ASN.1 disappeared. It was very awkward. Poor guy... |
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a) ASN.1 got XML Encoding Rules (XER), so you can use XML w/ ASN.1 as the schema language, which really, mostly is about supporting existing ASN.1-based protocols but with XML because well, you know, XML was all the rage,
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b), FastInfoSet happened, which is an ASN.1 PER-based "compression" of XML because well, you know, XML is too verbose and unwieldy.
I [bleep] you not, that happened.
Evidence that there's nothing wrong with ASN.1 the syntax (and that's all it is, syntax and semantics, with a side of pluggable encoding rules where you can make them all up the way you want). Everything that's wrong with ASN.1 is either that which is wrong with BER/DER/CER (plenty), or that which is wrong with people's perception of ASN.1 (also plenty).