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- From: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: standards - research, education & developement
- Message-ID: <3411@ucl-cs.uucp>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:10:57 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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- as an academic researcher, i was amused recently to be giving a
- course on ISO standards to a group of developers from
- the computing and telecommunications industry, and having to come up
- with excuses for the concrete baroqueness of ASN.1 and obfuscation
- that is the Session Layer Protocol.
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- is there a FAQ or better still a Frequently Given Excuse for these?
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- jon
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