See the comment above; it's nice not to need a separate framework. At least, for Urbit to Urbit networking. Of course there's nothing stopping you from encodi

See the comment above; it's nice not to need a separate framework. At least, for Urbit to Urbit networking. Of course there's nothing stopping you from encoding or decoding anyone else's protocols in Urbit. Or vice versa. Actually, using bit functions on bigints is a fairly pleasant way of handling binary protocols. There's also no particular problem in generating or decoding jammed nouns on non-Urbit systems. It's a binary encoding, but the decoder is a page of code. Perhaps jam:ASN.1 as JSON:SGML. :-)