Re: [lemonade] WGLC draft-ietf-lemonade-compress-02.txt

[Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm.com>]

At 12:56 AM +0100 7/21/06, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

>   >3.  The COMPRESS Command
>  [...]
> >     If both [STARTTLS] and COMPRESS are in use, the data should be
>
>  SASL is not listed here, but listed below. I suggest to change the 
> beginning of the first sentence to read:
>
>   >    If both [STARTTLS]/SASL security layer [SASL][IMAP] and 
> COMPRESS are in use, the data should be
>
>   >    compressed before it is encrypted (and decrypted before it is
> >     decompressed), independent of the order in which the client issues
>   >    COMPRESS, AUTHENTICATE and STARTTLS.

I think "both" becomes confusing when the first half includes two 
protocols.  Perhaps:

	If a security layer such as [STARTTLS] or [SASL] is used with COMPRESS,
	the data should be compressed before....


>  BTW, be prepared to answer IESG why you don't want an IANA registry.

May as well say clearly in the document that "deflate is the only 
currently defined mechanism.  Additional mechanisms are not expected 
to be required, but if so can be created by future RFCs which extend 
this document."
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Randall Gellens
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