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Re: [saag] ASN.1 vs. DER Encoding

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 28 March 2019 15:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] ASN.1 vs. DER Encoding
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Dr. Pala <madwolf@openca.org> wrote:
    > thanks to everybody for your messages - I think the conversation is
    > very interesting. A complier for TCP/IP packet parser is really an
    > interesting idea :D But only if we (just a joke, do not kill me!) use
    > ASN.1 and define a TIED (TCP/IP Encoding Rules) :D

Did this back in 2000.
It was intended to enable generation of code/rules/tables for NPUs.
  http://www.sandelman.ca/SSW/ietf/pax-pdl/pax-pdl-00.txt

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