Posted by
Hemos
on from the reduce-reuse-recycle dept.
GFD writes: "The EETimes has a story about a relavtively old protocol for structured information call ASN.1 could be used to compress a 200 byte XML document to 2 bytes and few bits. I wonder if the same could be done with XHTML or even regular HTML."
Hello, haven't we read Comer's book?
by
Karpe
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I believe it was Internetworking with TCP/IP, or perhaps Tanenbaum's Computer Networks, and the "conclusion" of the chapter on SNMP (which uses ASN.1) was that today, it is much more important to make protocols that are simple to handle, than stuff that conserves bandwidth at the price of performance, since the "moore's law for bandwidth" is stronger than the "moore's law for cpu power". You could use (and already uses) compressed communication links, anyway.
This is the same philosophy of IP, ATM, or any modern network technology. Simple, but fast.
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I believe it was Internetworking with TCP/IP, or perhaps Tanenbaum's Computer Networks, and the "conclusion" of the chapter on SNMP (which uses ASN.1) was that today, it is much more important to make protocols that are simple to handle, than stuff that conserves bandwidth at the price of performance, since the "moore's law for bandwidth" is stronger than the "moore's law for cpu power". You could use (and already uses) compressed communication links, anyway.
This is the same philosophy of IP, ATM, or any modern network technology. Simple, but fast.