Re: killing the "compress" transfer coding

On 2012-01-26 15:22, Dan Winship wrote:
>> 5.1.2.1.  Compress Coding
>>
>>   The "compress" format is produced by the common UNIX file compression
>>   program "compress".  This format is an adaptive Lempel-Ziv-Welch
>>   coding (LZW).
>
> 5.1.3 "Transfer Coding Registry" says that registrations MUST include
> a "pointer to specification text", so this registration is incomplete.

Well, as is the current (which points to RFC 2616).

> And since there is no pre-existing "permanent and readily available
> public specification" [RFC5226] of the format of UNIX compress files,
> we'd need to actually write that spec first to be able to fix this
> registration.
>
> Which would be silly, because no one implements compress anyway. So
> just kill it.

Killing it would be hard (as in "removing from the registry"), but we 
could deprecate it, or not keep it in HTTPbis...

Best regards, Julian