IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Protocol Definition

Re: IPP> Protocol Definition

Patrick Powell (papowell@dickory.sdsu.edu)
Fri, 11 Apr 1997 07:18:43 -0700 (PDT)

> From rturner@sharplabs.com Thu Apr 10 14:55:11 1997
>
> I would like to propose that we specify the IPP protocol
> itself using ASN.1 language.
>
> Comments ? (yeah, right, like there won't be comments on this one...)
>

<Professional Comment:>
I feel that, based on experience and working with
various diverse ASN.1 generation and/or parsing programs,
the that it is not a suitable method.

<Personal Comment:>
Over my cold, stiff bleeding fingers on the keyboard!
No Way! Having suffered the slings, arrows, bricks,
and pain of ASN.1, never again! Simple text, simple
parsing, etc. etc.

<Resolution:>
If you want to us ASN.1 SYNTAX or NOTATION text format
I could see a point of departure.

Patrick Powell