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RE: Minimum IP Compression Algorithm for Interoperability
Steve,
>This depends who you talk to. For compression to scale, folk are using
>compression chips. As far as I know (and I looked), there is not currently a
>chip available to do DEFLATE, so the answer could be 'LZS' since this is
>supported by commonly used Hi/fn chips.
But, since I understand that HiFn does not license LZS to competing
hardware vendors, it would be contrary to IETF procedures to make it
a default (required) algorithm for use with IPCOMP.
Steve
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