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RE: Minimum IP Compression Algorithm for Interoperability




I agree Steve - I was just 'stirring' in the hope that someone will
develop a DEFLATE chip - or 'any-old' license-free compression 
that works O.K. for stateless mode.

Steve. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Kent [mailto:kent@bbn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:07 PM
To: Waters, Stephen
Cc: FRousseau@chrysalis-its.com; ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
Subject: 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