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Re: the COMPRESSION discussion
In message <Chameleon.858823442.rja@c8-a.snvl1.sfba.home.com>, Ran Atkinson writes:
>
> Just to be clear, I _personally_ am indifferent about compression.
> As co-chair, I'm very religious about following the standards process.
> Before we can move forward there MUST be rough consensus within the WG
> on how to proceed. Right now this just is not present. Sigh.
And this is where I'm wary of compression as part of the IPsec WG.
Compression is extremely difficult to standardize, due to the number of
patents on compression algorithms. Witness the PPP WG, which ran around and
around on the discussion of compression for years, and where there is
*still* no useful interoperable compression.
It's already taken us far too long to get standards out; adding compression
will only make this worse.
--
Harald Koch <chk@utcc.utoronto.ca>
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