Re: OCSP-X vs SCVP

[Rich Salz <rsalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Agreed, we are talking about XML vs DER.

I don't think so.  I think it's XML "versus" ASN.1 and DER: the whole system.

With the advent of XML-Schema, there is now an XML datatype description
language that supports complex types (struct), constraints, inheritance, etc. 
(It's an interesting combination of pragmatism -- constraints can be expressed
as Perl regular expressions -- and elegance: an XML schema follows XML syntax
and is therefore a valid XML document.)

I can see that XER is of interest to ASN.1 folks, but I dont' see any real
interest from the XML development community.  It's useful to perserve existing
legacy (sic) ASN.1 definitions, but XML folks who want to describe data will
use DTD's and schema's.  (If only because the specifications are free.)  I
strongly believe the XML community will not enlarge the ASN.1 community.
	/r$