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Re: [dispatch] Zstandard compression

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Mon, 13 November 2017 03:22 UTC

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From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:22:13 +0800
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Subject: Re: [dispatch] Zstandard compression
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Sean Leonard <dev+ietf@seantek.com> wrote:

> Those documents do not specify MIME types, and I do not think this
> document draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd should do so either. The media type
> registration is weak: there is no way to signal inside the format what is
> inside other than an arbitrary stream of bytes. It is not a file archive
> format, or another kind of container format that identifies parts.
>

Why does that imply that a media type is not appropriate?  A module
receiving this content for processing needs to know what format it's in,
and I believe that's what these are for.

I request that we get an OID registration for this for use with Compressed
> Data Content Type for CMS, RFC 3274. That way it could be used with S/MIME
> or other formats that use CMS or S/MIME (seeing as how CMS / S/MIME are
> general container formats).
>

Wilco.

Surveying other container formats and doing the appropriate registrations
> with them in this draft would be appropriate, if one can articulate a use
> case in those respective formats.
>

Can you suggest an example?

-MSK

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