On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ajay Bhagwan Dudani [T] wrote:

> any idea how did asn.1 evolve... according to my information....some
> guy wanted to represent the MIB's of SNMP so he started out with asn.1
> and then it gradually went on to be used for other protocols
> too........is that true ??? and is asn.1 really the best solution we
> can have.

The above is not true.  You can find answers to the above, as well as
about implicit vs. explicit tags by looking at either of the freely
downloadable books at http://www.oss.com/asn1/booksintro.html

> i have even heard some talk about asn.2 ??? and idea on that ???

There is no such thing.

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