Re: Working Group Last Call: Compression Dictionary Transport

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 3:32 AM Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:

> I'm surprised that you are running WGLC on the compression dictionary
> stuff rather than the zstd size draft.  That latter one is baked.  This
> one, less so (though Patrick has done a lot of solid work here).
>
> The part that concerns me (and I haven't heard from anyone - other than
> Patrick - about it) is the Use-As-Dictionary piece.  For me, I have
> uncertainty about the viability of performing URL matching on every fetch.


Can you expand on that uncertainty? I don't think I get your concern.


>   I am also not convinced that a wide array of sites will be able to make
> that sort of compression operationally feasible.
>
> Though I could be convinced otherwise, that part of this work is better
> suited to Experimental track than a Proposed Standard.
>
> This is not a comment about the quality of the document.  As far as I can
> tell, it's complete and clear.
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024, at 09:49, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> > Working Group participants,
> >
> > This e-mail announces Working Group Last Call for revision 05 of the
> > following document:
> >
> >
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-compression-dictionary/
> >
> > There are no outstanding issues in GitHub, and the editors indicate
> > that they believe it is ready.
> >
> > Please review the document and raise any issues you find (preferably on
> > GitHub, but also acceptable on-list) and indicate whether you support
> > publication (or object to it) in response to this message.
> >
> > Working Group Last Call will end on 4 July 2024.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>
>