Re: ASN.1 BER (was: deadlines and "XDR-like" functionalities)

Richard Frost (frost@sdsc.edu)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 07:17:22 -0700 (PDT)

I've read some general papers regarding ASN.1, discovering that
BER (basic encoding rules) is CCITT standard X.209, derived from
X.409.

Are these online somewhere? I've found several Web documents which
reference X.#09, but none that discuss encoding details.

Thanks,
Richard

> There is an international standard, ASN.1 BER (binary encoding rules).
> These seem to be more general than XDR; ELROS (LLNL) used this for
> automated heterogeneous conversion between Crays and workstations several
> years ago, before MPI-1 was even complete...
> -Tony
>