Re: Last Call: <draft-alakuijala-brotli-08.txt> (Brotli Compressed Data Format) to Informational RFC

The only thing I'll add is that there isn't any such constraint on registered names in the RFC defining the registry. That doesn't mean that it's not possible to argue for a name change, but I think there'd need to be a good reason and strong supporting consensus, which seems to be lacking here.

Regards,


> On 7 Apr 2016, at 1:42 AM, Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au> wrote:
> 
> I think it's a bit too bike-sheddy for people to be interested in getting involved.
> 
> Note that 'br' is already in use in the wild (Firefox, cURL [I think], my webservers at work, etc.) and is actually the second name for the encoding since 'bro' drew complaints.
> 
> On 07/04/2016 11:26 AM, "Piotr Jurkiewicz" <pjurkiew@agh.edu.pl> wrote:
> (I sent this comment already two weeks ago to ietf@ietf.org, as suggested in the Last Call announcement, but received no response or any other kind of acknowledgement. Therefore, I am sending this to this mailing list, hoping to find someone interested in it here.)
> 
> This document requests a registration in the HTTP Content Coding Registry. Its authors proposed the 'br' token, which is an abbreviation of the algorithm name ('brotli').
> 
> However, by reviewing existing entries in the HTTP Content Coding Registry, you can notice that so far established convention is to use *full* algorithm name, rather than its abbreviation. For example:
> 
> - 'gzip' is used instead of 'gz'
> - 'compress' is used instead of 'z'
> - etc.
> 
> This convention is also respected by implementations when they create unofficial/non-standardized tokens. For example lighttpd and lynx support bzip2 compression and use 'bzip2' token for indicating it, rather than 'bz2' abbreviation.
> 
> I would urge to not break this convention and maintain the existing consistency, that is, to select and register 'brotli' as a HTTP Content Coding token for Brotli Compressed Data Format, instead the 'br' abbreviation.
> 
> Piotr Jurkiewicz
> Department of Telecommunications
> AGH University of Science and Technology
> Kraków, Poland
> 

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