iso 8825

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iso 8825 - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Basic Encoding Rules
  ISO 8825
  ITU X.209
  X.209
  
     <protocol, standard> (BER) ASN.1 encoding rules for
     producing self-identifying and self-delimiting transfer syntax
      for data structures described in ASN.1 notations.
  
     BER is an self-identifying and self-delimiting encoding
     scheme, which means that each data value can be identified,
     extracted and decoded individually.
  
     Huw Rogers once described BER as "a triumph of bloated theory
     over clean implementation".  He also criticises it as designed
     around bitstreams with arbitrary boundaries between data which
     can only be determined at a high level.
  
     Documents: ITU-T X.690, ISO 8825-1.
  
     See also CER, DER, PER.
  
     (1998-05-28)