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From: Eppenberger@verw.switch.ch (Urs Eppenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: DATA Compression and X400 standards
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Date: 29 Oct 90 08:55:15 GMT
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From my point of view data compression should not be handled within the
framework of X.400. This is purely a matter of the lower layers.
We have already a mess with all the body parts, I can't see any reason
to add compressed ones.
If some X.400 implementation store messages in a compressed format on disk,
I do not care and see also no need for standardisation.
Perhaps this view is too easy?

Kind regards,
Urs.