- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:27:49 +0100
- To: Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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
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