Re: more on ASN.1 and SOAP

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 09:59 AM 6/19/2003, Randy Presuhn wrote:
>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.

I refer you to this requirement from the charter:

  - Uses a textual data representation, that can be easily
    manipulated using non-specialized text manipulation tools.

and this paragraph:

  The Netconf protocol will use XML for data encoding purposes,
  because XML is a widely deployed standard which is supported
  by a large number of applications. XML also supports hierarchical data 
  structures.

Support for alternate data encoding schemes should be done
outside the netconf WG effort.

Andy



>> 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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