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Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:53:07 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> Would you pick
> XML or ASN.1 if those were the only two options?  If the pointy-haired
> powers that be are mandating one or the other and, ``neither'' isn't in
> the range of possible solutions?

What are the alternatives?  My pick is ASN.1, any time.  You can call
the ITU-T by as many ugly names as you like, but their standards are
considerably more firm than more recent publications.

++L