Re: Delta encoding in HTTP to Proposed Standard
Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au> Fri, 09 February 2001 13:30 UTC
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From: Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au>
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cc: ietf@ietf.org, "Jeffrey C. Mogul" <mogul@pa.dec.com>, Balachander Krishnamurthy <bala@research.att.com>, douglis@research.att.com, Anja Feldmann <anja@cs.uni-sb.de>, Arthur van Hoff <avh@marimba.com>, "M. Hellerstein" <danielh@crosslink.net>, Martin Pool <mbp@linuxcare.com.au>
Subject: Re: Delta encoding in HTTP to Proposed Standard
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Submission to the IETF and IESG regarding "Delta encoding in HTTP <draft-mogul-http-delta-07.txt>" as a Proposed Standard. In relation to this Internet-Draft I have a concern regarding its acceptance as a Proposed Standard in its current form, due to a significant omission. This Internet-Draft includes section 1.1 titled "Related research and proposals". However this section completely fails to acknowledge the existence of the rproxy project[1]. Nor is rproxy refered to anywhere else in the current draft. It is my humble opinion that this omission renders this Internet-Draft critically incomplete. This section could also benefit from a reference to rsync[2]. I in no way submit that the technical proposals of Mogul et al are inferior to rproxy, but rather that these two approach similar (if not the same) challenges with contrasting solutions. It is from this point of view that I submit that the current draft is critically incomplete insomuch as includes a section "Related research and proposals" which makes no apparent qualification of incompleteness. Whilst there may be grounds to allege that rproxy is still a work-in-progress, it is a project which has a sound foundation - "The rproxy algorithm is based on the well-known and trustworthy rsync software by Andrew Tridgell." [1],[2] Having discussed this matter with the one of the rproxy developers[3], I am sure that the contributors to rproxy would be agreeable to providing some assistance with including an appropriate reference in this Internet-Draft. Yours Sincerely, Neale Banks. Fri, 9 Feb 2001 References: [1] rproxy: http://www.linuxcare.com.au/rproxy [2] rsync: http://rsync.samba.org/ [3] Conversation with Martin Pool at linux.conf.au, January 2001
- Re: Delta encoding in HTTP to Proposed Standard Neale Banks
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