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

[creed@opengeospatial.org]

Just catching up on email.

I am not aware of any ASN.1 implementations. Further, from what I know of
EM solutions and policies in Europe in Asia, there will not be any in the
near future. And I suspect that the US NG 911 recommendations for
standards will not include any ASN.1 words. XML or binary payloads.

Regards

Carl
>> representation of CAP 1.1 was. That  was why I said that this was the
>> "first time I heard ASN.1 encoded CAP messages in
>> relation to any US-specific implementation..."
>
> I too have not heard of any US specific implementation, but I've also not
> heard of any European ones either :)  Actually outside of the H.323 work
> is anyone else aware of CAP ASN.1 implementations, it would be good to
> know as a reference and to get their feedback on any problems and areas of
> improvement.
>
> The original question I believe was regarding XML to ASN.1 translations
> and the IPAWS Profile.  While the IPAWS Profile doesn't have any explicit
> references to ASN.1, it also doesn't contain anything specific to XML
> only, and there should be nothing that prevents ASN.1 encodings of IPAWS
> Profile messages.  I have little experience with ASN.1 however and would
> certainly be willing to work with anyone who has ASN.1 expertise to test
> and prove this.
>
> Regarding XML to ASN.1 translations, while it should be possible, there is
> a concern here.  One of the major reasons for CAP 1.2 was correcting the
> schema to include XML Digital Signatures/Encryption.  However DSig's don't
> translate over into ASN.1.  So if you were translating from XML to ASN.1
> the DSig will be lost and some other, probably transport related, security
> mechanisms would be needed.  Translating back to XML from ASN.1 would be
> even more problematic as you would have to resign the XML message for
> DSig, and if you were to compare the original XML DSig to the translated
> XML DSig they would not match.  Again though, take my comments with a
> grain of salt.  I'd certainly like to see if there is someone with ASN.1
> expertise who would be willing to also test this out.
>
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> jake@jpw.biz
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