Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] XML to describe protocols?

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From: andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:14:54 +0200
> I don't want to spoil the hype about XML, but there is a different approach
> to formal description of protocols, named ASN.1.

> That would help a lot for implementation of protocol stacks
> and Ethereal dissectors because of automatically generated source code
> directly from the protocol standard. I think that the snmp-dissector is
> generated that way, isn't it?

The H.323 dissectors are generated directly from ASN.1 source

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Andreas Sikkema
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