Jim Starkey wrote:

> Jacqui Caren wrote:
>>Roman Rokytskyy wrote:
>>>But if nobody has practical experience in ASN.1, I think we have to
>>>forget about it anyway.

>>If you intend to rewrite the wheel though you should be able to
>>take working code from an open source application such as
>>ISODE - if it still exists.

I did work on the ISODE stack for ~3 years - including porting it
to a supercomputer and high end Sun servers, so performance (I managed
to panic a top of the range sun server once a week!), byte order, word
length etc were issues in my work.

>>I have to say that I find it amusing that the team are proposing
>>to re-invent a 15+yr old wheel :-)

> That's a very good question -- why, indeed, re-invent the wheel? Let's
> look at the history of the wheel.

[ diatribe snipped ]

> Railroads required another re-invention of the wheel, with a flange to
> keep the wheel "on track" (so to speak) and a steel web in place of
> spokes to bear a great deal more weight.

Bzzzt! rail axles are truncated cones. The flange is NOT intended to
guide the train, but it does help navigate points. HST "bogey" design
is something else!

I try to be constructive when criticising others. I offered previous
experience with the subject and ended up being called a fool.
If I offended your ego, I apologise as that was not my intention.

IMHO there is nothing wrong with reusing old tech. A few years ago
I used a Pl/SQL driven WPE engine to parse job adverts, extracting
context out of abbreviated english. In this case, 1960's tech did
the job and the client saw this as 'revolutionary'. :-)

If your intention was to ensure I no longer participate in this project
then you are a tad late as we are dropping FB for PgSQL in my current
project.

Good luck,
Jacqui