[Standards] e2e compression

[Jonathan Chayce Dickinson]

Has anyone thought of using end-to-end compression? Look at the following example:

john-->myserver.org-->hisserver.org-->fred

Now if we look at what happens when a message is sent:

john-->compress-->myserver.org-->decompress-->interpret-->
compress-->hisserver.org-->decompress-->interpret-->compress-->
fred-->decompress

As opposed to (with e2e compression):

john-->compress-->myserver.org-->interpret-->hisserver.org-->
interpret-->fred-->decompress

Obviously only the payload would be compressed, the stanza would


I know this has the potential to be a terrible idea...

Regards,
  Jonathan Dickinson

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need to stay intact. Much simpler algorithms could then be used on the servers that explicitly deal with compressing XML efficiently.

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