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Subject: Re: ASN-1 - XCBF Liaison?
This sounds like a good approach for a version 2. And your comments and suggestions on copyright/IPR issues are interesting, to say the least! John L Phillip H. Griffin wrote: > John, > > This would be great stuff for an annex in version two, which > I hope to put underway shortly. If we had words like these and > a simple table of the controls and a brief defintion of what they > do and a pointer to the standard, we could reference this from > the body of the document where we need Base64 encoded > certificates. > > But such an annex whould help to hook XCBF up better to > XSD based tools. It could provide greater flexibility for > applications developers. > > Want to write this? You can protect your rights as owner of > your words as I have. Before I place anything is any standard > anymore, I first post the words on a web page somewhere on > my web site. > > This is how I shared my writing between XCBF and X9.84. I > first put it on my web page, then paraphrased my own words > as I drafted text for these documents. I figure that each body > owns their version of the words and I still own mine as well. > > For schema notation this approach was critical, as I could > not allow the schemas in the two documents to vary. They > had to be the same for them to interwork, but each standards > body had to have their own copyright. I got the idea from > our friend Richard, who spoke at length on copyright law to > the MoU Management Group, and privately in a subsequent > string of emails. > > As if doing this technical work itself weren't hard enough. > > Phil > > > John Larmouth wrote: > >> Phillip H. Griffin wrote: >> >>> John, >>> >>> I do not have a clue what you mean when you use the term >>> "EXTENDED-XER". I can find no mention of this term in >>> any of the ASN.1 standards that XCBF and X9.84 reference. >> >> >> >> EXTENDED-XER is what was earlier referred to as VXER (Variant XER). >> That is just a name change. Use of it allows encoding instructions to >> be applied (without an encoding instruction it does not differ from >> BASIC-XER - the new name for what you would call XER). A single >> encoding instruction can modify many of the XER encodings to use text >> rather than empty element tags, to provide better alignment with XSD >> encodings. There are also about 20 specific encoding instructions >> such as BASE64 that perform specific functions in relation to XML >> encodings. >> >> Probably the most important such encoding instruction is UNTAGGED, >> that removes XML tags round things like a sequence of elements, or a >> choice of alternatives, or a sequence of elements, but there are >> others that are designed to support XSD-specific functionality, such >> as DEFAULT-FOR-EMPTY and USE-TYPE and USE-NIL and USE-ORDER. Mainly, >> but not exclusively, the encoding instructions have been developed to >> support the mapping from XSD, and apart from BASE64, are probably not >> of particular relevance to the XCBF work. >> >> John L >> >> > > > > -- PLEASE NOTE - As an anti-SPAM measure, e-mails will shortly not be accepted by my machine from an unknown sender unless the subject contains the phrase "Hi John". If you pass my e-mail address to others (which I am very happy for you to do) please tell them to include this phrase in the subject line of their first mailing to me. Thanks. Prof John Larmouth Larmouth T&PDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services Ltd) 1 Blueberry Road Bowdon j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk Cheshire WA14 3LS (put "Hi John" in subject) England Tel: +44 161 928 1605 Fax: +44 161 928 8069
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