I really don't understand why ASN.1 has been so easily forgotten and left behind, even as people are suggesting binary XML techniques to speed up data transfer and processing.
XML is a slightly more friendly implementation of the ASN.1 concepts, which predate XML by more than ten years, as you point out.
[I would mod you up but I don't have any mod or metamod points right now.]
Macromedia has a technology called FlashPaper, which does the same thing. I guess that it is essentially a Flash plug-in that's been tailored to document output. Does google use a plug-in? Did they license it from Macromedia?
If google is using a plug-in on the browser side, then the DRM will be harder to crack because you'll have to capture the data in-transit (along with any encryption) or in raw memory (without the benefit of a DOM or similar object).
I am not a hardcore UI developer, but I bet PrintScreen won't work just like it doesn't work for Flash, since the object won't respond to GetBitMap (or similar) messages.
from a bunch of chips that you can throw together to create a system, to a bunch of sections on a chip that can be thrown together to create a system-on-a-chip.
Of course, on-chip interfaces, and the whole thing, will be faster, especially when you can put best of breed components together.
As the article states, its bringing knowledge gained from high level system engineering practice down to the sub-chip level.
It's good stuff, maybe not obvious, but not mind bending either.
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I really don't understand why ASN.1 has been so easily forgotten and left behind, even as people are suggesting binary XML techniques to speed up data transfer and processing. XML is a slightly more friendly implementation of the ASN.1 concepts, which predate XML by more than ten years, as you point out. [I would mod you up but I don't have any mod or metamod points right now.]
There's a brief story in the Washington Post about a local company involved in innnovative identity establishment technology. The term "claims" is prominent in their description as it is in the Microsoft document. Interesting. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2005/07/24/AR2005072400911.html
Macromedia has a technology called FlashPaper, which does the same thing. I guess that it is essentially a Flash plug-in that's been tailored to document output. Does google use a plug-in? Did they license it from Macromedia? If google is using a plug-in on the browser side, then the DRM will be harder to crack because you'll have to capture the data in-transit (along with any encryption) or in raw memory (without the benefit of a DOM or similar object). I am not a hardcore UI developer, but I bet PrintScreen won't work just like it doesn't work for Flash, since the object won't respond to GetBitMap (or similar) messages.
from a bunch of chips that you can throw together to create a system, to a bunch of sections on a chip that can be thrown together to create a system-on-a-chip. Of course, on-chip interfaces, and the whole thing, will be faster, especially when you can put best of breed components together. As the article states, its bringing knowledge gained from high level system engineering practice down to the sub-chip level. It's good stuff, maybe not obvious, but not mind bending either.