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by 0x0 4292 days ago
I saw "ASN.1" in the draft and immediately thought "over-engineered".
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jbert 4292 days ago
When bytes count (and they often don't, but in this case they probably do), what would be your preferred system? And what do you see as your favoured approach's main advantage(s) over ASN.1/BER?
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dbrower 4292 days ago
ASN.1/BER is a pain in the ass. I'd rather gzip json. Or poke chopsticks in my eyes.

(creds: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1697)

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0x0 4292 days ago
^ What that guy said. ASN.1 parsers are super complicated and have been the cause of remote exploits more than once.
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sitkack 4291 days ago
I'd say that is by design.
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lionet 4290 days ago
MIBs are not ASN.1, actually.
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