Sure, but that's the same thing as you see with "we've shoved a base64'd JSON object in your JSON object." Value opacity is an API concern, not evidence that DER can't be decoded without a schema.
The wikipedia page on serialization formats[0] calls ASN.1 'information object system' style formalisms (which RFCs 5911 and 5912 make use of, and which Heimdal's ASN.1 makes productive use of) "references", which I think is a weird name.
The wikipedia page on serialization formats[0] calls ASN.1 'information object system' style formalisms (which RFCs 5911 and 5912 make use of, and which Heimdal's ASN.1 makes productive use of) "references", which I think is a weird name.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serializati...