On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Hartmut Mueller wrote:
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> notation), ITU-T Rec. X.692, ISO/IEC 8825-3. There aren't many protocols by
> now which are described with ASN.1 (UMTS, GPRS, Bluetooth, BACnet...).
SNMP (sort of), LDAP, Kerberos V, SSL....
> Hopefully, ASN.1 is going to be an important standardisation language for
> future protocols. That would help a lot for implementation of protocol stacks
> and Ethereal dissectors because of automatically generated source code
> directly from the protocol standard. I think that the snmp-dissector is
> generated that way, isn't it?
W.r.t. open/free software, that would depend on the development of a
general open/free ASN.1 compiler. And even highly-paid experts working
for hire have had extraordinary difficulty producing general-purpose ASN.1
compilers.
> PS: For information about ASN.1 please have a look at
> http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/book/ from Olivier Dubuisson. There is also a
> mailing list at asn1@xxxxxxx.
I'm reading it now. It's good. One feels like an apprentice learning the
tricks of the trade at a master's elbow.
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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@xxxxxxxxx
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