Re: [emergency] CAP 1.1 Standard and ITU-T Recommendation

[Olivier DUBUISSON <olivier.dubuisson@orange-ftgroup.com>]

Art Botterell wrote:
> Friends -
> 
> Sounds like a lot of important details are being picked up here, so may 
> I offer a more general suggestion?  Is there someplace where it is, or 
> could be, stated explicitly that our overriding intent is for the ASN.1 
> and XML codings to represent the same data structure interchangeably?

This is already mentioned in ITU-T Rec. X.1303.1 (and there is a note in 
X.1303 that points to X.1303.1 and says the same). Please check if it is 
an answer to your suggestion.

> That might seem trivial or obvious, but there's always the possibility 
> that some small inconsistency will slip past our collective inspection, 
> however thorough.  Might it be prudent, therefore, to memorialize our 
> overall intent as an added safeguard against some accidental artifact 
> being mistaken for intentional at some point in the future?

Well... this would mean that ITU-T Rec. X.694 (Mapping from XSD to 
ASN.1) is broken ;-)
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Olivier DUBUISSON, ITU-T ASN.1 Project leader (including OID)
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