Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal Gripe

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From: "Mark H. Wood" <mwood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:14:20 -0500 (EST)
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Ashok Narayanan wrote:
[snip]
> A lot of IETF protocols are going to this "TLV" type of message like
> used in RSVP. The message is a series of objects; each object has a
> type, a subtype, and a length (not necessarily in that order). Each
> object has a separate definition.
>
> Maybe some sort of XML parser that describes these objects, and the
> header? I was thinking about it some time back but gave up due to lack
> of time. Maybe I (or somebody) can dig up this chestnut again...

A hollow voice says, "ASN.1".

- -- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@xxxxxxxxx
MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".
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