One of the authors of OCSP once explained that his motivation was that debugging could be simpler because a parser doesn't need to know the syntax behind implicit tags. There was no other particular reason.
sravan wrote:
I thank Steven & David for taking their time in explaining the concept of tagging.now with david's mail, i am almost near the point(thanks again, david)if possible please point me to one practical situation(like x509 cert, ocsp format...) where in this explicit vs implict tagging matters. let me be clear - Say in the ASN.1 notation of a praticular rfc(say x509 or ocsp) explicit tagging is used; why not implicit tagging is used there. i need the explaination from a designer's perspective(this i can get only from ppl like u who have been here around for a while).
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