ASN.1 grasped the nettle
n The easy bit:
Combine the Hierarchical Approach and the
Pragmatic approach
n The hard bit:
Long character strings versus obscure binary
representations
n A lot of blood was spilled in 1985.
n Went for binary!!!! (In the encoding, characters
in the value notation – see later)
n  OIDs are essentially binary encodings.
n Even when sent with XML they are things
like 0.2.693.57. etc – encoded in characters, but it
is still binary!