Re: Cohen's paper on byte order

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@t-online.de)
Date: 04/06/03 

From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de>
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 16:12:16 +0200

"Douglas A. Gwyn" wrote:
>
> AES is intended to be used to standardize an aspect of
> information interchange, a.k.a. *communication*. That
> means that leaving critical decisions to "somehow" is
> inappropriate.
>
> The practical issue can be seen when somebody implements
> AES and finds that he is unable to communicate with
> somebody else who has his own implementation of AES.
> If you think that doesn't matter then further discussion
> is futile.

You missed the point entirely in my view. IT is a very
wide field, there are many different subfields, involving
different technologies and their corresponding standards.
AES does only a very tiny job in communication, namely
encryption processing. Information exchange (transmission)
has its own standards and there is a plethora of these.
It is not only unreasonable/impossible but blatantly
'wrong' to put everything concerning communictions in
general, e.g. the transmission protocal at the physical
level, into that standard. It would be absurd. Note also
in this connection that communication engineering is
such a big field that it is commonly a seperate section
in the faculty of EE or CS.

M. K. Shen

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