• To: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: The subsetting has begun
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:43:52 -0800
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Alaric B. Snell wrote:

> ASN.1 doesn't constrain representation, it's purely an Abstract Syntax 
> Notation - it lists what information content something has, and nothing more.

And, as a result, it offers poor interoperability relative to good old 
Unicode-with-angle-brackets.  (My personal experience, yours may vary). -Tim

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