On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote:
> > On 1/28/25 7:38 PM, Wei Chuang wrote: > > > I would propose that the latest charter has latitude to try both the broad > and narrow approaches for "reversible transformation", and I believe that's > a good thing. I would like to see both directions pursued as each has > their pros and cons, and some of the cons might not be so apparent till > some operation experience is acquired. Or at the least, there should be a > meaningful technical discussion of the proposals and merits after this step > because of the prohibition against technical discussion currently. > Basically I'm saying let's not rule anything out because we don't know what > the proposals and their merits are. > > I mean, we're basically talking about ~diff(1), right? It's certainly > tractable in that context, but what may be problematic are maximum header > sizes in implementations. But realistically the things that would implement > this (eg, mailing lists) probably aren't going to be doing something > horrible like re-encoding an mp4 file or something like that where you'd > end up with gigantic header. > Right, the more general approach would use something like diff, and indeed a potential downside is the header size expansion. The simpler alternative might be some encoding that specifically supports mailing list footer additions that could be expressed as offsets from the message bottom or some specified delimiter. -Wei
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