RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ediint-compression-03.txt

As for AS.2 and AS.3, I think section '1.2 Structure of an EDI MIME message utilizing compression' could be enhanced with a bit of text to explain how RFCs are used.

But more important, it seems that Transfer Encoding diserves a discussion: mail infrastructures (AS.1) require 7 bit data, so base64 encoding, while HTTP (AS.2) restricts it. This issue is raised for the cases where the MIME layer directly containing the compressedData is not encapsulated within another layer.

Regards.

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> Objet : I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ediint-compression-03.txt
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line 
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> This draft is a work item of the Electronic Data 
> Interchange-Internet Integration Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title		: Compressed Data for EDIINT
> 	Author(s)	: T. Harding
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-ediint-compression-03.txt
> 	Pages		: 5
> 	Date		: 2004-2-3
> 	
> The intent of this document is to be placed on the RFC track as an 
> Informational RFC.
> 
> The EDIINT AS1 and AS2 message formats don't currently contain any 
> transport neutral provisions for compressing data when 
> utilizing S/MIME
> as the secure packaging standard. Compressing data before 
> transmission 
> provides a number of advantages including
> 
> 1. reducing data redundancy, and so reducing opportunities for attacks
> exploiting redundancy, and
> 2. reducing the amount of data and so speeding up cryptographic
> processing such as signing, encryption, archiving, and 
> 3. reducing the overall transmitted message size, reducing 
> both time and
> bandwidth needed for transport.
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ediint-compress
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