compression transform conclusions

Rodney Thayer <rodney@sabletech.com> Thu, 21 November 1996 22:33 UTC

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[response to Bob Monsour's proposal]

I believe his charactarization of the discussion so far is accurate.

I believe it is the rough consensus of the group that compression
should be part of the ESP transform, one way or the other, with or
without statefulness, parameter negotiation, sequence numbers, etc.

I myself think the ESP transform is excessively complex as it is,
regardless of the compression features.  I think this will interfere
with deployment and will increase the risk of security problems due
to buggy implementations.

But, I do think Bob's proposal represents the view of the group, so
I think that's what we should go with.


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