Re: more on ASN.1 and SOAP

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Margaret Wasserman" <mrw@windriver.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
> Cc: "netconf" <netconf@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:46 AM
> Subject: Re: more on ASN.1 and SOAP
...
> I don't really understand what "the proposed new work"
> actually is...

To specify how SOAP-based protocols could be encoded
using more efficient encoding rules, such as BER, PER, etc.

> Is it just a way of expressing SOAP syntax in ASN.1, so
> that they could use ASN.1 to document the structure
> of SOAP messages?  Or is it a proposal to somehow encode
> SOAP in ASN.1 for transmission on the wire...  Or is it
> something else altogether?

As I understand it, the ASN.1 definitions are just to provide
a human-readable explanation of what's going on, as well as
input to the various tools to handle the BER/DER/PER encoding
and decoding.

> BTW, what is "INCITS T3"?

T3 covers a heckuvalotta standards, including X.500, ASN.1, X.700,
and all sorts of other goodies.  See http://www.incits.org/tc_home/t3sd4.htm
For information on INCITS (formerly NCITS, formerly X3) see http://www.incits.org/

Randy



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