Re: [woes] New WOES charter proposal

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Mon, 25 July 2011 19:44 UTC

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On 7/25/11 3:42 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:

> The idea with "basing on" CMS as I understand it is to avoid
> starting over with analysis of the basic concepts and features
> (cutting things out is fine) and was not to say "use ASN.1
> encoding".

That was my understanding as well: "let's not define utterly new semantics".

Peter

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