From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9adec21573cabfac17f03cf01600b3e5@9netics.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: ASN.1 (Was: [9fans] More 'Sam I am') Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:04:48 -0800 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: <7ebe705b83452f6e8ab6789c09cb35f2@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: fb9241f2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i think any committee that comes up with a proposed standard should individually be responsible for implementing it. note that this would work for large or small efforts. if the committee is able to implement it and it works, then it would be adopted. specific to the question, i like the S-expression approach I've not used it for anything so my advice is as good as the random committee member. > And my question remains: "What is a better option for the conveying of > platform-independent data than ASN.1 or XML?"