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There have been a couple of requests in this group about alternatives
to BER, e.g. DER, and this reply might be of some relevance.

There are indeed some proposals for alternative transfer encoding rules, and
if I remebre correctly, they are approximately at the CD (Committee Draft=DP)
stage.

It may however be the wrong time to get the relevant documents, as the
SC21 meeting in Arles, France in theese days include meetings in the
working groups, and several aspects of ASN.1 will be discussed.
It has been suggested that the ISO ASN.1 documents should be restructured.
Furthermore it seems that the "new" things are not in a stable
stage yet, being changed significantly at each meeting.
I would suggest that you wait for the output documents from
the meeting. I believe they should be ready some time after the
summer holidays.

The relevant group is JTC1 SC21 WG6, and I believe its secretariat is at
ANSI.

Klaus Hansen