- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:21:04 +0000
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- cc: "Adrien W. de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Kevin Cathcart <kevincathcart@gmail.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <CAHBU6ivKQypwvHPf09FjENm57DsPnH=qehbRSknHW+jpyo75dw@mail.gmail.com> , Tim Bray writes: >Funny you should mention that. ASN.1 has historically been a >miserable failure; About the only place ASN.1 survives, are in contexts where the OSI protocols was an inspiration or basis for the work: SNMP and X.50[0-9] For SNMP, ASN.1 was a political trick to make SNMP acceptable as a "gateway drug" to CMIP. For X.50[0-9] I don't know the story. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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