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Re: LPF Statement on the GIF controversy (LZW patent)

To: kz1f@relay.hdn.legent.com
Subject: Re: LPF Statement on the GIF controversy (LZW patent)
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:01:01 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: mikebw@bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net, tcp-group@ucsd.edu
In-reply-to: <9501182148.AA0060@RELAY.HDN.LEGENT.COM> from "kz1f@RELAY.HDN.LEGENT.COM" at Jan 18, 95 01:43:11 pm

> Perhaps licensing restrictions is why the RFC's governing SMTP or FTP 
> protocols dont address compressing the buffers.

Compression is a link layer issue. Over a fast hop compression is often
counter productive in the CPU time used. Thus the compression ought to be
part of the AX.25 layer.

Alan

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