Why self describing data formats:

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:28:02AM -0400, Bowness, Piers wrote:
> But what is does help is allowing a protocol to be expanded and enhanced
> while maintaining backward compatibility for both client and server.

Nonsense.  ASN.1's PER encoding does not prevent extensibility.

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