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> 1) The most general ASN.1 application was the OSI protocol stack, right? > In that stack, everything supported BER at least, and there was > negotiation to see if both sides preferred something else. So everything > was interoperable (thanks to BER being universal) and more advanced > encodings could be used where needed. And this general OSI protocol stack could be found where, exactly? :) ASN.1 has use and value, but the OSI stack died stillborn. Maybe things are/were different in Europe -- you had JANET which was an X.400/Internet email gateway, but how widespread was that? It only took a few years for the US DoD to give up on GOSIP (government procurement of OSI protocols) when they couldn't buy a single damn product. Let's keep ASN1 seprate from OSI; it only hurts your cause to comingle them. /r$, who's apprently feeling a -- Rich Salz Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html
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