[lemonade] WGLC compress-02 IANA registry

[Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net>]

On Fri Jul 21 00:56:40 2006, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> BTW, be prepared to answer IESG why you don't want an IANA registry.

I asked Arnt about this in private mail a while back, and Arnt's 
response was that currently, there was little need for the complexity 
when we have effectively a single unencumbered candidate. (In fact, 
LZW is now out of patent, if memory serves, but implementations are 
fewer). We would, in any case, have to mandate DEFLATE support for 
interoperability purposes.

I actually think that a better way forward would be to define a 
distinct document which created the IANA registry and populated it 
with DEFLATE as the MTI, and then subsequently this document would 
then reference it. Subsequent documents providing an ESMTP analogue 
of this document would do the same.

However, the latter path is going to take longer and delay this 
document.

Dave.
--
Dave Cridland - mailto:dave at cridland.net - xmpp:dwd at jabber.org
 - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/
 - http://dave.cridland.net/
Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

_______________________________________________
lemonade mailing list
lemonade at ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lemonade