Re: Generalizing the stats hierarchy

On 09/25/2012 06:47 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 25 September 2012 08:26, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
>> c'mon - ASN.1 is SO last-decade, and XML is last-year.... we've got to burn
>> ourselves on the new hotness....
> Last year might be fashion suicide, but ASN.1 is just old enough to be
> considered retro stylin'.  It's definitely more than a decade old.
You young whippersnappers! ASN.1's debut was in X.409 - the Red Book - 
the 1984 ITU standards collection.
28 years is definitely more than a decade!
>
> On 24 September 2012 13:12, Matthew Kaufman <matthew.kaufman@skype.net> wrote:
>> And why JSON when there's all the ASN.1 encodings?
> I have to pick on this one.  ASN.1 doesn't have encodings.
Have they changed the meaning of "E" in BER / PER / DER *again*?
>    Besides,
> JER is almost here.  Would that be X.696?
>
You mean as suggsted by PHB?
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg07258.html