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From: Eppenberger@verw.switch.ch (Urs Eppenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: DATA Compression and X400 standards
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Date: 29 Oct 90 14:52:16 GMT
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Dear Vint,

you are perfectly right with your FTP example.
But I was talking about ISO standards, where the same mistakes should note
be repeated.
There are two reasons for compression:
1. Save disk space
It is up to the UA how it stores info on disk, standardisation is not needed.
2. faster transmission
Here it is the job of the lower layers to compress the protocoll units.
Users should not be bothered with that at all!

Kind regards,

Urs Eppenberger