One comment on "... disadvantages of ASN.1" I have heard several blanket
statements concerning the "evils" of using ASN.1 and I can't help but
wonder do those who oppose the use of ASN.1 know of a good alternative?
The forces behind ASN.1 for public-key certificates are probably unstoppable.
Nontheless, Carl Ellison will be presenting a paper "against ASN.1"
at the RSA conference in January, and in my biased opinion ISO-standard
DCE NDR (network data rep.) has both an abstract syntax and defined
on-the-wire layout that make it a highly appealing alternative. But
then, I've been working on DCE at OSF for several years now.
I'd direct replies to a subset of the addressee's, but can't determine the
proper subset.
Happy holidays.
/r$