[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized

[Peter Gutmann]

Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:

>My favorite more recent example of the pitfalls is TL1, a language and
>protocol used to managed high-end telecom equipment.  TL1 has a completely
>rigorous syntax definition, but is supposed to be readable.

For those not familiar with TL1, "supposed to be readable" here means "encoded
in ASCII rather than binary".  It's about as readable as EDIFACT and HL7.

Peter.