ASN.1 -- More Prior Art (Score 5, Interesting)

Seems to me that ASN.1 also would represent some fairly significant prior art.

Quotes from that web site:

• Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a formal language for abstractly describing messages to be exchanged among an extensive range of applications....
• ASN.1 was first standardized in 1984 by the CCITT (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, now called ITU-T, International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector) under the name "X.409 Recommendation".