Re: Best practice for data encoding?

[Masataka Ohta <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

>> in your original question to the list, you didn't quite make clear  
>> that your question was with respect to BGP-style transfer of large- 
>> scale routing information.

> I didn't want to limit the scope of the discussion to one particular  
> type of protocol.

Could you stop this abstract nonsense, then?

Many old protocols designed for old, slow computers such as
telnet/ftp/smtp, does use text. Their replies are structured
text mostly with 3 digits. That is, properly designed text
based protocols are fine. Note that all you need is EBNF, not
XML.

						Masataka Ohta



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