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Re: [dispatch] Zstandard compression

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Mon, 13 November 2017 06:19 UTC

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From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:18:58 +0800
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Subject: Re: [dispatch] Zstandard compression
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Sean Leonard <dev+ietf@seantek.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Working on this. It strikes me as either…odd…or just not really that
> useful for the purpose. It is a format, but it’s just a format for a stream
> of arbitrary bytes. There is no way to label it internally beyond the
> implicit “application/octet-stream” type.
>

Don't you need a hint as to how to decode an octet stream that's encoded in
some way?

The kind of signaling Content-Encoding provides is something that's needed
more generally, and this is what a media type would solve.

-MSK

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