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Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)
At 11:14 AM 2/18/97 +0100, Germano Caronni wrote:
>Daniel Harkins wrote:
>> > I know that there are some wg members who support the use of
compression,
>> > some who don't and some who haven't expressed an interest either way.
Well,
>> > the time has come to decide. PLEASE RESPOND BY INDICATING YOUR POSITION.
>> > Be sure to copy the wg list in your reply.
>>
>> I support the use of compression but not in IPsec. It should be done up
>> higher, perhaps the transport level. It's better to compress the stream
>> of data before it's divided into packets than to wait and compress each
>> packet. I'd rather see 50 packets then 100 smaller ones.
>
>Compression allows for saving a valuable ressource. This might be done on
>intermediate systems (e.g. firewalls) which also care about enterprise
>security and to encryption. Usually in those systems no upper layer is
>available.
>
>I support compression as an optional (and important) function in ESP.
>
>Germano
>
>
I agree. Compression is beneficial. At the very least it is able to
compensate for IPSEC overhead which is nice in both end systems and
intermediate
systems.
Derek Palma
Net Research, Inc.
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