From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: OT: Looking for a protocol
Date: 21 Jan 2006 23:17:26 -0600
Date: 2006-01-21T23:17:26-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <$fStXzgEBCCM@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ICdnd7w5epKeU_eRVn-hA@comcast.com
In article <4ICdnd7w5epKeU_eRVn-hA@comcast.com>, "Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net> writes:
> It's off topic, but I know smart guys hang out on CLA so I'll ask anyway.
>
> I'm looking for a standard in which XML metadata is used to describe the
> structure of binary data.
>
> I want to send packets of binary data across TCP/IP with each packet
> preceded by a globally unique identifier (GUID) that identifies
> corresponding XML metadata. If the receiver does not already have the
> metadata, it can be requested from a server. Otherwise the receiver uses
> the metadata to interpret the binary data.
>
> It sounds so simple, someone has probably already done it. Is there a
> standard?
To me this seems like a problem susceptible to ASN.1, but that is my bias.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-22 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-22 1:53 OT: Looking for a protocol Steve
2006-01-22 5:17 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2006-01-22 11:51 ` Adrien Plisson
2006-01-22 15:42 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-22 16:42 ` Larry Elmore
2006-01-22 17:35 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-22 20:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-01-23 1:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-23 1:31 ` Steve
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