Re[2]: OCSP-X vs SCVP

[Timothy Fisher <timothyf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed.

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Sincerely,
 Timothy Fisher                       mailto:timothyf@mindspring.com



Friday, November 10, 2000, 8:04:49 PM, you wrote:

>> Agreed, we are talking about XML vs DER.

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

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

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