Re: : New ID : Diameter Compression

Agreed. --Jari

[email protected] wrote:

>Hello
>Beyond the technical implementation details on the compression itself, I
>have difficulties in understanding the requirement for Diameter
>Compression:
>Diameter is typically used in newtork environments with no throughput
>issues on the transmission lines (i.e. it is not to be used on  narrow
>radio links with scarce throughput).
>The issue for Diameter peers is more efficiency (in terms of speed of
>deploying services/features and in terms of CPU usage) so why would we
>spend effort in defining/deploying a compression algorithm? It will be
>faster and cheaper to send Diameter messages uncompressed.
>Let's wait for an actual requirement from 3gpp2, 3gpp, Wimax forum,... to
>work on Diameter compression and until then let's work on other topics...
>Best regards
>Laurent Thiebaut
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>             A draft about "Diameter Compression" is available now.
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>             Please review the same and give your comments.
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>Warmest Regards
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>Rajith
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>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>directories.
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>                          Title
>  : Diameter Compression
>                          Author(s)                     : H. Zhangtao, R.
>Rajith
>                          Filename                      :
>draft-zhangtao-aaa-compression-00.txt
>                          Pages
>  : 11
>                          Date
>  : 2005-9-14
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>  This document describes the negotiation of compression algorithm
>  between two Diameter peers and the indication of data compression
>  using a new AVP [Attribute Value Pair] flag.
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>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zhangtao-aaa-compression-00.txt
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