Gunter Van de Velde's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-compression-dictionary-12: (with COMMENT)

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draft-ietf-httpbis-compression-dictionary-12: No Objection

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# Gunter Van de Velde, RTG AD, comments for
draft-ietf-httpbis-compression-dictionary-12

## Many thanks for writing this document. I found the text not easy to process,
mostly because i am not  overly familiar with http compression technologies,
and a significant number of abbreviations and acronyms sounded exotic to me.
However I do suspect that is normal and that these all of these are understood
by the HTTP experts.

## I only got one small suggestion about making the abstract. Feel fre to use
or ignore:

11      Abstract
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13         This specification defines a mechanism for using designated HTTP
14         responses as an external dictionary for future HTTP responses for
15         compression schemes that support using external dictionaries (e.g.,
16         Brotli (RFC 7932) and Zstandard (RFC 8878)).

[minor]
Making the abstract slightly higher level to explain the benefits of the
document.

"
This document specifies a mechanism for dictionary-based compression in the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The proposed method enables the use of
pre-shared dictionaries to improve compression efficiency for HTTP responses.
By utilizing this technique, clients and servers can reduce the size of
transmitted data, leading to improved performance and reduced bandwidth
consumption. This document extends existing HTTP compression methods and
provides guidelines for the negotiation and use of compression dictionaries
within the HTTP protocol. "

Received on Tuesday, 20 August 2024 12:20:20 UTC