- From: Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:15:12 +0100
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, public-webrtc@w3.org
I'm warming to this idea…. My first Java applet was an SNMP monitor for the UPS MIB - back when applets were new and cool (briefly) '96? . You could see the state of the battery on a dial in your web browser. Maybe I'll write a ASN1 parser in javascript ;-) T. On 26 Sep 2012, at 00:11, Martin Thomson wrote: > On 25 September 2012 11:10, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote: >> 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! > > Exactly. It's almost as old as me. > >>> ASN.1 doesn't have encodings. >> >> Have they changed the meaning of "E" in BER / PER / DER *again*? > > Those aren't the Abstract Syntax Number One. Those are just things > that *use* the Abstract Syntax Number One. > > BTW, you know it is good because no one decided to make Number Two. > Obviously, the encoding rules have less of that timeless quality you > are looking for. > >>> JER is almost here. >> You mean as suggsted by PHB? >> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg07258.html > > PHB has spoken. You know it will happen. I don't want to be present > for the OCTET STRING debate where base64 faces off against base64url, > with "array of numbers" as the runner with long odds. >
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