Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:35:26 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC1974 (STAC) Message-ID: <29649.1004099726@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:33:11 BST." <20011026132510.N36971-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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In message <20011026132510.N36971-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>, Andrew Gordon wr ites: >However, STAC holds patents on the compression algorithm, so the legal >status of any implementation would be questionable. Do they only hold compression or also decompression patents ? >It is also not clear that it offers much advantage in typical use, since >many things are already compressed (graphics on web pages, .tgz downloads, >SSH tunnels/connections), and small transfers are constrained by TCP >slow-start (the acutal HTML of sensible size web pages). I suppose >compression would help with those web pages which have stupid amounts of >javascript with long variable names and loads of whitespace. STAC makes a good dent in the tcp headers and stuff... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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