RE: draft-ietf-ippcp-lzs-01.txt for comments

[Bob Monsour <[e-mail]>]

Comments on the comments on the comments (one anyway). See below.

At 02:16 PM 11/17/97 -0800, Robert Friend wrote:
[snip]
>>>1.2 Background of LZS Compression
>>>
>>>   Starting with a sliding window compression history, similar to [LZ1],
>>>   Hi/fn developed a new, enhanced compression algorithm identified as
>>>   LZS. The LZS algorithm is optimized to compress all file types as
>>                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>?
>>[Rob]  How about "..all data types..".
>>
>>>   efficiently as possible.  Even string matches as short as two octets
>>>   are effectively compressed.

I think what Avram may be getting at is that it might appear a bit silly to
say something is "optimized" for "all" types of anything. If something is
optimized, I would expect it to be for a particular type of "thing". So,
how about using the following text instead:

"The LZS algorithm is a general purpose lossless compression algorithm for
use with a wide variety of data types. Its encoding method is very
efficient, providing compression for strings as short as two octets in
length."

-Bob




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