- From: Kevin Gamiel <kgamiel@islandedge.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:37:30 -0400
- To: Robert Waldstein <wald@library.ho.lucent.com>
- CC: www-zig@w3.org
Robert Waldstein wrote: > > Just to weigh in (gee, thought I had switched to being a lurker) I strongly > disagree with the 2 points above (agreed with the rest). > explain PDUs (actually PDUs/BER in general) have very little overhead. > I have always found that impressive. I read that to mean overhead in the sense of complexity, not bytes (Rob?). Actually, I like ber, too, but new technologies like xml do the same thing, though in bloated form, and are more readily acceptable to other developers. That counts for something. > everything in explain were real things that someone argued for needing > for their implementation. The things you aren't interested in you don't send > and - in theory - your server then won't support those clients or functions. You're right, most of the stuff is optional. Kevin -- Kevin Gamiel Email: kgamiel@islandedge.com Island Edge Research, Inc. http://www.islandedge.com Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina Phone: +1-252-449-8969
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