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From: karl@asylum.sf.ca.us (Karl Auerbach)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: The Open Book
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Date: 14 Dec 89 00:12:14 GMT
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> btw: what can you expect of a bunch of people will invent 
> (who dont have computer science degrees and all speak different 
> natural languages) but ASN.1? wait for ASN.2

ASN.1 is a growth on X.409 which came out of the work of IFIP WG 6.1
which came out of the internet community.  Please don't be so down on
ASN.1 itself -- it makes a great deal of sense when used to hold
multi-media documents and electronic mail (things which you don't have
to parse in real-time).  The dummy is the one who decided that ASN.1
is the vehicle for virtually all upper-level exchanges in OSI.

				--karl--