Editing Management information base (section)

==ASN.1==
[[Abstract Syntax Notation One]] (ASN.1) is a standard and flexible notation that describes [[data structure]]s for representing, encoding, transmitting, and decoding data. It provides a set of formal rules for describing the structure of objects that are independent of machine-specific encoding techniques and is a precise, formal notation that removes ambiguities.

ASN.1 is a joint ISO and [[ITU-T]] standard, originally defined in 1984 as part of CCITT X.409:1984. ASN.1 moved to its own standard, X.208, in 1988 due to its broader applicability. The substantially revised 1995 version is covered by the X.680 standards series.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.680/e |title=Recommendation X.680 |publisher=ITU}}</ref>

An adapted subset of ASN.1, [[Structure of Management Information]] (SMI), is specified for use in SNMP to define sets of related MIB objects; these sets are termed MIB modules.