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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
<year>1997</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
under the License.
</legalnotice>
<title>ASN.1</title>
<prepared>Kenneth Lundin</prepared>
<docno></docno>
<date>1999-03-25</date>
<rev>D</rev>
<file>asn1_overview.xml</file>
</header>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>ASN.1 is a formal language for
describing data structures to be exchanged between distributed
computer systems. The purpose of ASN.1 is to have a platform
and programming language independent notation to express types
using a standardized set of rules for the transformation of
values of a defined type into a stream of bytes. This stream of
bytes can then be sent on any type of communication
channel. This way, two applications written in different
programming languages running on different computers, and with
different internal representation of data, can exchange instances
of structured data types.</p>
</section>
</chapter>
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