Re: [STDS-802-16] Seminar on ASN.1 to IEEE 802
Hi,
It is confirmed that the ASN.1 seminar will be held on Sunday, July 11, 
9:00am-7:00pm.  If you are interested in attending and have not already 
informed me, do let me know.
Bancroft
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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 09:57:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bancroft Scott <baos@oss.com>
To: STDS-802-16@listserv.ieee.org
Subject: Seminar on ASN.1 to IEEE 802
Hi,
OSS Nokalva is offering to provide a free seminar on ASN.1 to all interested 
IEEE 802 meeting attendees in conjunction with the upcoming meeting in San 
Diego.  The ASN.1 seminar will run from 9:00am - 7:00pm and will be focussed on 
the subset of ASN.1 and PER that will be used in IEEE 802.16m.  The seminar 
will take place either on the Sunday before the first day of the meeting or on 
the Friday after the last day of the meeting, depending the preference shown 
for either.
The seminar is scheduled for July 11, the Sunday before the first day of the 
meeting. It is contingent on confirming the attendance of a sufficient number 
of participants.  Please let me know if you are interested in attending this 
seminar.  I'll confirm the date once I can judge the interest level.
If you cannot attend on July 11, please let me know if you would attend if the 
seminar were offered on either Friday, July 16 in San Diego, or on Sunday, 
August 15, the day before the start of the IEEE 802.16 TGm meeting in Calgary.
Here is a description of the content of the seminar:
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This 1-day seminar will focus on the subset of ASN.1 and PER that is to be used 
in IEEE 802.16m.  It will include hands-on ASN.1 and PER encoding exercises 
which will greatly help in making the seminar material concrete.
The material to be covered will include the following:
    Overview
    Modules
    Type Notation
    Subtype Constraints
    Value Notation
    Packed Encoding Rules, Unaligned
    Extensibility
    Backward compatible changes
The ASN-1Step tool will be used for the seminar exercises.  This tool will 
allow the seminar attendees to easily create ASN.1 types, check the syntax for 
correctness, use a graphical message editor to create and view message 
instances, and examine at the bit level how messages are constructed in PER. 
The attendees will leave the seminar knowing how to define messages in ASN.1, 
and will understand the effect of the various syntax choices on the size of 
PER-encoded messages.  They will also leave with clear knowledge of how to 
safely change or extend ASN.1 types, and what changes to never make because 
they result in backward compatibility problems.
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Please reply directly to me if you are interested in attending this seminar.
Bancroft Scott
baos@oss.com