To: John C Klensin <KLENSIN(_at_)INFOODS(_dot_)MIT(_dot_)EDU>
Subject: Re: 1154bis quick analysis
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 13:18:26 -0500
Gee, that sounds great. If the gzip/PKZIP algorithm is free of legal
entnagelements, as seems to be the case, and is produces reasonably
tight compression without too much CPU, why not go with it?
We should give it strong consideration.
How can we be sure it's free of legal entanglements? (Greg?)
It seems to me that "several compression algorithms and rules for choosing
among them" can be considered one more complex algorithm.
Then we have to document them all, and implementations have to implement
them all, resulting in greater complexity, and more bugs, and less
interoperability. If one algorithm is good enough, better to just document
the algorithm.
We need to produce a specificiation from which people can write code, such
that various implementations of that spec will work with one another.
Keith