[Rfid] Re: XML vs. Text vs. Binary

You are correct to note that TLS is not required to be used.  However,
if you are concerned about security, which was the basis for your first
question, then you can use it.   There are environments where the
security concerns that you raise are not an issue.  For those and the
base case, I argue for efficient, mimimal requirements on the
implementations.

Scott

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:42, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:56:14AM -0400,
>  Scott Barvick <sbarvick@revasystems.com> wrote 
>  a message of 121 lines which said:
> 
> > the protocol processing is layered on top of standard security
> > mechanisms as discussed in Section 4.2 of the draft.
> 
> Section 4.2 is nice but it just says that TLS MUST be present, not
> that it MUST be used, no?
> 
> > Therefore, the implementation can safely access fields in payload as
> > efficiently as possible.
> 
> It seems to me quite contradictory to say (David Husak's message) "We
> will use fixed-length encoding because it is faster" and "security is
> not an issue, since we use TLS". Surely, TLS processing is much more
> costly than XML processing and therefore the cost of XML is
> negligible?
> 
> 

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