At 14:46 28/07/95, Carl Ellison wrote:
I am compiling a list of things which are truly wrong with ASN.1. It's not
very long, but it should have been empty. It is growing very slowly.
Contributions are welcome.
A major item for the list: ISO evolution control over ASN.1.
(( just think about the MACRO use and fate between 1988 and 1994! ))
but to keep the balance, as something that deserves attention
when designing the successor, I will mention PER from Simon Spero
Another point.
I don't know if this will be possible, but I would like the new "decent
something" be such that it would not force the suppliers of the few
decent ASN.1 toolsets to have to throw away there whole architecture
and restart from scratch
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