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Subject: Re: [emergency] Questions on ASN.1 and IPAWS Profile / CAP 1.2


Thanks Alessandro,

Appreciated muchly.

Cheers,
Rex

Alessandro Triglia wrote:
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>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gilmore, Timothy [mailto:TIMOTHY.D.GILMORE@saic.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 07:24
>> To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
>> Cc: Gooch, Martena M.
>> Subject: [emergency] Questions on ASN.1 and IPAWS Profile / CAP 1.2
>>
>>
>>
>> Timothy D. Gilmore | SAIC
>>
>> Senior Test Engineer | ILPSG | NIMS SC | NIMS STEP
>>
>> phone: 606.274.2063 | fax: 606.274.2012
>>
>> mobile: 606.219.7882 | email: gilmoret@us.saic.com  
>>
>> P Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>>
>> I have a couple of questions for the group on ASN.1 and IPAWS 
>> Profile / CAP 1.2 from one of our engineers. 
>>
>>
>> As of CAP 1.1, OASIS allows CAP alerts to be ASN.1 encoded.  
>> Will we see any such messages relating to the IPAWS profile 
>> and CAP 1.2 standard?  I suspect that we will eventually, 
>> since a lot of EAS equipment is probably already involved 
>> with the PSTN.
>>
>> If the ASN.1 schema in the CAP standard works correctly now 
>> under CAP 1.1, then it shouldn't be difficult to build a 
>> testing tool to convert back and forth between XML and ASN.1 
>> encoded CAP messages. Are there any issues here?
>>     
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>
> I believe the ASN.1 schema for CAP 1.2 (like the ASN.1 schema for CAP 1.1)
> was generated by using a translator conforming to the X.694 standard.  This
> ensures that one can use that ASN.1 schema to perform any of the following
> operations:
>
> - parse an XML CAP 1.2 message
> - produce an XML CAP 1.2 message
> - decode an ASN.1/PER (binary) CAP 1.2 message
> - produce an ASN.1/PER (binary) CAP 1.2 message
>
> which in turn allows one to translate between these two formats just by
> decoding from one format and re-encoding into the other format.
>
> So the test should be just a matter of using any existing ASN.1 tool to do
> the above on a set of test messages.
>
> Alessandro
>
>
>   
>> If there are issues, then should there be any encoding done 
>> for IPAWS profile / CAP 1.2 standard for ASN.1?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Timothy D. Gilmore | SAIC
>> Senior Test Engineer | ILPSG | NIMS SC | NIMS STEP
>> phone: 606.274.2063 | fax: 606.274.2012
>> mobile: 606.219.7882 | email: gilmoret@us.saic.com
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