Re: CBOR Tutorial from Garth Conboy on 2018-01-31 (public-publ-wg@w3.org from January 2018)

From: Garth Conboy <garth@google.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:18:46 -0800
To: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
Cc: Romain <rdeltour@gmail.com>, Baldur Bjarnason <baldur@rebus.foundation>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, "Schindler Wolfgang Dr." <w.schindler@pons.de>, "Davis, Greg" <greg.davis@pearson.com>, Richard Wright <rkwright@geofx.com>, W3C Publishing Working Group <public-publ-wg@w3.org>, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
wrote:

> Garth – you wouldn’t want to gzip the entire CBOR stream in a
> non-HTTP-based exchange.   (yes, you could, but it would mess up all sorts
> of things).  You would really want to use CBOR object compression which
> doesn’t exist today in the standard…
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> Leonard
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Why?  If it was for non-HTTP (like FTP or USB stick) it wouldn't be a
steam, just a blob, and you'd want to unzip before processing.  No?

Best,
   Garth

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