Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2008 Ideas

From: Chris Weed (chrisweed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-26 12:38:09

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Mikael Olenfalk <mikael.olenfalk_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> I saw that you are starting to think about SoC 08 and I have a couple of
> ideas:
>
> I cannot vouch for the usefulness of any of these proposals :)
>
>   1. Boost.Asio
>   1. add support for SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) besides
>      TCP and UDP
>   - more information on SCTP can be found on
>         http://www.sctp.org/rfcs.html
>         - I have not yet used SCTP anywhere so I cannot actually
>         judge its importance, the *NIXes seem to support SCTP for
> some time now, I
>         am unsure about Windows but it looks like Vista and Server
> 2008 do support
>         SCTP
>         - All *NIXes use the SCTP socket api
>         - I do not know what the API on windows for SCTP looks
>         like
>      1. add support for BEEP on top of TCP
>         - BEEP is an "application protocol framework", basically
>         it is just a set of guidelines packaged for application
> protocol design,
>         which solves common problems one faces when designing new
> application
>         protocols
>         - http://beepcore.org/doc.html contains more information
>         - http://beepcore.org/beep-toolkits.html lists current
>         toolkits for BEEP
>      2. Boost.Serialization
>      1. add archive types for ASN.1 encoding rules, e.g. BER, DER,
>      EDER, XER, etc. to be used together with Boost.Asio or perhaps
>      even Boost.Asio.Beep (not that beep forces you to use any
>      specific encoding)
>      2. Wikipedia has links and information:
>         1.
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Syntax_Notation_One
>         2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Encoding_Rules
>         3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Encoding_Rules
>         4.
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Encoding_Rules
>         5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Encoding_Rules
>         6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packed_Encoding_Rules
>         7.
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_String_Encoding_Rules
>         3. Boost.Asn1 (for lack of better name)
>      1. Boost.Spirit-like DSEL for embedding ASN.1 notation directly
>      in C++; then you could "easily" implement ASN.1 based protocols
>      without the need for code generation outside of your C++ compiler
>      2. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Syntax_Notation_Onefor
> more information on
>      ASN.1
>      3. This might overlap with proposal 2 for Boost.Serialization
>      4. Finish Boost.Process (I think that it was a SoC 2007 or 2006
>   project)
>
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Mikael Olenfalk
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I am not very familiar with ASN.1, but if it could serve as a portable
binary representation
that could go between c++ and other languages that would be great!

Chris