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From: neufeld@cs.ubc.ca (Gerald Neufeld)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: DATA Compression and X400 standards
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Date: 29 Oct 90 19:40:35 GMT
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It seems to me that you can still get the advantage of different compression
algorithms based on knowledge of the data (as Marvin points out) and still do
the compression below the application layer.  Couldn't this  be done by using
different transfer syntaxes for each of the different types of data? The
compression can then be done at the presentation layer.

Gerald
UBC