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Press releases, presentations and articles on ASN.1 and XML

ASN.1: A Powerful Schema Notation for XML and Fast Web Services (by O. Dubuisson)
Analysis of Binary XML Suitability for NATO Tactical Messaging (by Matthew E. Bayer, Thesis, Sept. 2005)
Fast Infoset and Fast Web Services tutorial (by Paul Sandoz, at the ITU-T SG17 Meeting in Moscow, March 30, 2005)
Putting XML in the fast lane (by Martin LaMonica, on c|net News.com , Jan. 13, 2005)
Fast Infoset and Respect-based Standards (by Rick Jelliffe, on O'Reilly Developer Weblogs, Jan. 11, 2005)
The FI Project - An Open Source Implementation of a Binary XML Standard (on Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart's Blog, Jan.6, 2005)
Binary XML. Taking on XML's bandwith and memory constraints (by Oliver Goldman, in Dr. Dobbs's Journal, Nov. 2004)
Conference "XML for Binary Interchange: Addressing Machine-to-Machine Interoperability & Tactical and Mobile Computing"Binary Showdown (by MITRE, Sept. 21-22, 2004)
XML dégraissé : ASN.1 accélère les Services Web, by Claude Chiaramonti (<XML>fr, Jul. 9, 2004 -- in French)
Abstract: "XML a été concu pour la clarté et non pour la concision, d'où l'idée de le compresser pour alléger les Services Web."
fast-infoset : sérialisation d'infoset XML en ASN.1, by Eric van der Vlist (<XML>fr, June 29, 2004 -- in French)
Simple, Fast, no-Loss binary XML - Fast Infoset, (on Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart's Blog, June 4, 2004)
Fast Infoset, by Paul Sandoz, Alessando Triglia and Santiago Pericas-Geertsen (on Sun Developer Nework Site, June 2004)
An XML Alternative for Performance and Security: ASN.1, by Darren Mundy & David D. Chadwick (IT Professional Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2004, pp. 30-36)
Abstract: "Performance tests of XML and ASN.1 found that signed complex XML messages can be up to 1,000 percent slower to decode than an equivalent ASN.1 message."
Binary Killed the XML Star?, by Kendall Grant Clark (XML.com, Oct. 19, 2003)
ASN.1, a schema language for XML (whitepaper by OSS Nokalva, Oct. 2003)
ASN.1 is getting sexy again! or ASN.1, XML, and Fast Web Services, by John Larmouth (at ETSI MTS#37, Sophia Antipolis, France, Oct. 14-16, 2003)
Slides: [pdf]
Report from the W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets (Sept. 24-26, 2003).
Of particular interest are the position papers of Mitre, Sun Microsystems and OSS Nokalva.
Sun touts Fast Web Services plan. Binary encodings key to proposal, by Paul Krill (Infoworld, Sept. 19, 2003).
Fast Web Services, by Paul Sandoz, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen, Kohuske Kawaguchi, Marc Hadley, & Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart (Aug. 2003)
ITU releases latest version of ASN.1 (Convergence Plus, May 30, 2003)
Leading ITU specification language delivers major advances. New version of ASN.1 incorporated in biometrics and banking standards (ITU-T press release, Geneva, April 25, 2003)
The emergence of ASN.1 as an XML schema notation (XML Europe 2003 conference, London, May 5-8, 2003)
Slides: [pdf]
OASIS XML Common Biometric Format Moves Toward Standardization (The XML Cover pages, Feb. 6, 2003)
Tool to translate XML Schemas into ASN.1 modules (xml-dev, Oct. 25, 2002)
Group says ASN.1 can field XML, save bandwidth (EE Times, Aug. 9, 2001)
Cover page on ASN.1 Markup Language (AML), by Robin Cover (Aug. 8, 2001)
ASN.1 and XML Messaging (in Dr. Dobb's Journal, Jul. 17, 2001)
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