Re: [XCON] On encodings - observations

["Pete Cordell" <pete at tech-know-ware.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henning Schulzrinne" <hgs at cs.columbia.edu>
> > > You do pay a price for very long tags, but only if you can't use  gzip- 
> > > style compression, which essentially does the text-to-code   translation 
> > > automatically and without penalty.
> >
> > gzip isn't free.  It costs on small devices and servers handling a  lots 
> > of connections.  Hence I don't think you can say it is without  penalty.
>
> Sure. Let's design systems that work on vacuum-tube computers. This  is 
> getting silly - the rest of the world does just fine with TLS and 
> three-tier web service architectures,

The majority is without TLS so this is bogus.

> and we worry about gzip  overhead on a server that handles echo 
> cancellation and video  transcoding.

Not necessarily on the same hardware.

> Maybe there is a corollary here to nethead vs. bellhead:  namely those who 
> have last programmed on a large scale around 1980  vs. the rest of the 
> world that actually worries about programmer  productivity and fitting 
> into the computing infrastructure of the  21st century.

Are you talking about yourself here?  Someone proposing XML + SOAP + TLS + 
gzip + whatever else they can wrap things into doesn't sound like someone 
who is worried by programmer productivity to me.  Sounds like design with 
PowerPoint to me!

Pete.
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