- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 19:26:37 -0800
- To: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>
- Cc: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Michael Mealling wrote: > So imagine what you would want to do to XML if DNS version 2.0 had to > use it but still had to maintain its current 'network footprint' and > client/server interaction methods. > > Also, to be clear, this isn't for the wireless world, its for the > current internet but at a scale that HTTP over TCP simply can't touch. So you are hypothesizing that there is a method for compressing arbitrary XML that will do a good job on this particular application and also span a broad-enough range of usefulness that it's cost-effective for W3C or IETF or someone to invest in standardizing it? BTW, does WBXML as it stands meet your needs? Another approach would be to define a custom binary format for the needs of your application and provide a canonical mapping to a well-defined format for purposes of interchange outside the application. Because it's not obvious that XML is well-suited to the needs of the application you describe. -Tim
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