[9853] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Improve the traffic condition on the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Wed Mar 20 13:44:03 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:14:13 +0100
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
To: Gao Hong <gh@748pku.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Gao Hong's message of Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:25:41 PST
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Gao Hong <gh@748pku.pku.edu.cn>
> I mean we define a compress standard using on the internet.
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-deutsch-deflate-spec-02.txt
contains that. From the draft announcement:
Title : DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
Author(s) : L. P. Deutsch
Filename : draft-deutsch-deflate-spec-02.txt, .ps
Pages : 16
Date : 03/14/1996
This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that
compresses data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman
coding, with efficiency comparable to the best currently available
general-purpose compression methods. The data can be produced or consumed,
even for an arbitrarily long sequentially presented input data stream,
using only an a priori bounded amount of intermediate storage. The format
can be implemented readily in a manner not covered by patents.
(Me again) It'll be good to have a well-defined, good, compression
standard, but I agree with Benjamin Franz that for the web, effective
caching holds much more promise.
--Arnt
