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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Mike,<br><br></div>Zstandard has provoked a lively discussion on IETF lists. Noteworthy <br></div>comments included Harald Alvestrand objecting strongly to the use of<br></div>"standard" in the name (he's gotten lots of support for this comment)<br></div>and several cryptographers questioning why it's worthwhile, given that</div><div>it uses existing crypto primitives and it currently lacks good treatment <br>of the security considerations.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>- Ira<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)<br>Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG<br>Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG<br>Secretary - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group<br>Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG Internet Printing Protocol WG<br>IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB<br>Blue Roof Music / High North Inc<br><a style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic</a><br><a style="color:rgb(102,0,204)" href="http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc</a><br>mailto: <a href="mailto:blueroofmusic@gmail.com" target="_blank">blueroofmusic@gmail.com</a><br>Jan-April: 579 Park Place Saline, MI 48176 734-944-0094<br>May-Dec: PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839 906-494-2434<br><br><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Michael Sweet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msweet@apple.com" target="_blank">msweet@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">and I am passing it on as well.<div><br></div><div>Some information on Zstd, which I hadn't heard of until this morning, which looks really interesting:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://facebook.github.io/zstd/" target="_blank"><span class="m_5431221803924056453Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>http://facebook.github.io/<wbr>zstd/</a></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="m_5431221803924056453Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">"Murray S. Kucherawy" <<a href="mailto:superuser@gmail.com" target="_blank">superuser@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Zstd compression (FYI)</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">November 15, 2017 at 2:57:47 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ietf-http-wg@w3.org" target="_blank">ietf-http-wg@w3.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Resent-From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Yves Lafon <<a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" target="_blank">ylafon@w3.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Resent-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">HTTP Working Group <<a href="mailto:ietf-http-wg@w3.org" target="_blank">ietf-http-wg@w3.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'd like to make this WG aware of a draft that's being processed in the ART area, namely draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd[<wbr>1].
It describes a data compression algorithm and registers a related media
type and content encoding. The developers aren't seeking browser
adoption at this point but since it is making entries in registries
affecting in this area, I wanted to make it visible here.<br><div><br></div>It
was discussed briefly in DISPATCH at IETF 100, and it was decided that
it will be AD-sponsored. There's no action item for HTTPBIS. Just FYI.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div>-MSK<br><br>[1] <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd/" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/<wbr>doc/draft-kucherawy-dispatch-<wbr>zstd/</a><br></div>
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