Re: gzip/deflate compression/encoding

I'd very much like to see the deflate-8bit and deflate-base64 C-T-Es 
formally defined.
If someone identifies a niche for which they can be introduced sensibly, 
they will be able to deploy them, rather than inventing Yet Another 
Compression Scheme. If nobody starts using them seriously, well.... we've 
lost some time, and an RFC number or two. Big deal. We've done that any 
number of times, for any number of things (remember the MODEL top level 
type? Who's hurt by having it around?)
(The time of the authors/reviewers/IESG is the expensive part, 
unfortunately :-()
                        Harald