More broadly, he is talking about the community. That is what makes or breaks a technology today, and the community for asn.1 doesn't exist. It also lacks many

More broadly, he is talking about the community. That is what makes or breaks a technology today, and the community for asn.1 doesn't exist. It also lacks many of the features protobufs have, like versioning or associative map, not to mention it is ugly.