Re: Registry Escrow Information as EPP Spec?

On Feb 27, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> But note the problem with doing this in XML: for any largish database
> with heavy traffic, you're already looking at _at least_ megabytes of
> deposit data.  I'm not totally convinced that the benefits of XML in
> this instance outweigh the considerable additional cost in
> chattiness.

Admittedly, XML is verbose.  However, you should be able to easily  
achieve 10:1 compression with standard gzip libraries.

For one of my DNS zone scanning projects, I generate 8GB XML files  
which compress down to 700MB with no problems.

-andy