RE: OCSP-X vs SCVP

[Michael Zolotarev <mzolotarev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  But that ain't how the world works, and 
> that ain't how
> people want it to work.

Proof, please. I want the proof.

> 
> Of course people will use APIs.  But one way to judge the success of a
> protocol is by the number of toolkits that support it.  I 
> believe that it's
> important to design a protocol to be easy to implement, even 
> if the vast
> majority of the protocol's users will never care.
> 
As one of the vendors, I dare to claim that it absolutely does not matter
for *a vendor* whether to deal with ASN1 or XML. There are other problems to
tackle, much more serious, than specifics of the encoding. And every vendor
has tools to handle encoding. There are tools for XML, and tools ASN. You
want one - ask me. Nobody starts from scratch.



> (No flames, please!  I'm quite happy with either standard.  
> If I've one
> criticism, it's that the ASN.1 specs are not free.)
> 
> 		Marc
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