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by woodruffw 1032 days ago
There’s a wide set of best practices (use only DER for encoding, avoid legacy string types, etc.) that are widely applied in cryptographic applications, although I don’t know if anybody has written them down explicitly.

More generally: this wasn’t intended to be an endorsement of ASN.1 per se! It was only to say that it got some things right, things that Cap’n Proto and Protobuf appear to have eschewed. I’m not sure it is the right IDL for modern purposes, but I think it’s a useful piece of reference material.