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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: OT: Looking for a protocol
Date: 22 Jan 2006 11:35:36 -0600
Date: 2006-01-22T11:35:36-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ml1BvlblZmMI@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bd2dnXB98adrKE7eRVn-uQ@comcast.com

In article <bd2dnXB98adrKE7eRVn-uQ@comcast.com>, Larry Elmore <ljelmore_@comcast.net> writes:
> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> Adrien Plisson wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>>To me this seems like a problem susceptible to ASN.1, but that is my
>>>>bias.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>>i would have say the same...
>> 
>> 
>> Well, call me stupid - but what the heck is ASN.1?
>> 
>> Martin
> 
> http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/
> 
> It's very widely used in telecom.

It is also used to define the X.500 standards, and thus the
ubiquitous X.509 public key certificates.

It is particularly designed for specifying information that is
agnostic to the bit ordering habits of particular computer
architectures.

One can think of it as XML without the wasted space.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-22 17:35 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
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 [this message]
2006-01-22 20:53           ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-01-23  1:45             ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-23  1:31   ` Steve
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