Subject: Re: request to publish: draft-heath-ppp-v44-02.txt

From: James Carlson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:21:22 -0500

Thomas Narten writes:
> The IESG has been asked to publish:
> 
>                    PPP V.44 Compression Protocol
>                        draft-heath-ppp-v44-02.txt
> 
> as an informational document.		       
> 
> Have folks in the WG had a chance to review this? Any opinions
> (positive or negative)?

My comments are probably arriving way too late, but I'm vaguely
uncomfortable with a compression protocol that has modes requiring
sequencing and that (unlike all of the other CCP algorithms defined to
date) includes no sequencing header.

I'd certainly prefer either a one or two octet header before the
compressed data, as has been done with RFCs 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979,
2118, or a trailing checksum as with 1978.

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