Paul Thorpe is currently the Editor for the ASN.1 standards in both the ISO/IEC and ITU-T committees which jointly publish ASN.1 standards. He is also active in the OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) Technical Committee, and has been involved in the development of Intelligent Transportation Systems standards published by IEEE. Current interests are use of ASN.1 as an XML shema language, and mapping between XSD and ASN.1 to allow XML documents to be converted to and from the compact binary ASN.1 encoding rules with no loss of data or semantics.