Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
in your original question to the list, you didn't quite make clear
that your question was with respect to BGP-style transfer of large-
scale routing information.
I didn't want to limit the scope of the discussion to one particular
type of protocol.
Could you stop this abstract nonsense, then?
Many old protocols designed for old, slow computers such as
telnet/ftp/smtp, does use text. Their replies are structured
text mostly with 3 digits. That is, properly designed text
based protocols are fine. Note that all you need is EBNF, not
XML.
Masataka Ohta
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