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On another thread ("Grails"),  Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <jadedgamer / hotmail.com>
wrote:
> [M] Built-in support for ASN.1 would be nice as well. Admittedly,
> ASN.1 has apparently been relegated to "just for SNMP traps",
> despite the fact that ASN.1 can in theory replace RMI entirely, much
> like SOAP. Watch this space.

ASN.1 is one of those binary formats that grew out of ISO. It's lack
of popularity can perhaps be attributed to the lack of popularity for
other ISO things like X.400 (ISO MOTIS) mail.
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Is anyone actually interested in ASN.1 support for Ruby? I implemented
enough of it for LDAP in the Net::LDAP library, in a reasonably encapsulated
way so it could be abstracted into its own package. I'd be happy to do this
if anyone has a use for it.

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