Classification:
Prologue:
Epilogue: Roger K deBry
Senior Techncial Staff Member
Architecture and Technology
IBM Printing Systems
email: rdebry at us.ibm.com
phone: 1-303-924-4080
I second Bob's opinmoion. I prefer not to use ASN.1
-------------------- Forwarded by Roger K Debry/Boulder/IBM on 04/11/97 07:33
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ipp-owner @ pwg.org
04/10/97 07:19 PM
To: rturner @ sharplabs.com at internet, ipp @ pwg.org at internet
cc:
Subject: Re: IPP> Protocol Definition
> From rturner at 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...)
>
I am very unenthusiatic about ASN.1 because of its overhead. In the
model group we have purposefully used keywords that are a string of
characters so that we could have a simple protocol that avoids OIDs and
ASN.1.
I would prefer that we stay with text and use the syntax rules from
rfc 2068, even for the IPP protocol, whatever it turns out to be.
Bob Herriot