To:
Andrew Sullivan <andrew@ca.afilias.info>
Cc:
ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
Andrew Newton <andy@hxr.us>
Date:
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:17:04 -0500
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<20060227154927.GC21433@afilias.info>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: [ietf-provreg] Registry Escrow Information as EPP Spec?
On Feb 27, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > But note the problem with doing this in XML: for any largish database > with heavy traffic, you're already looking at _at least_ megabytes of > deposit data. I'm not totally convinced that the benefits of XML in > this instance outweigh the considerable additional cost in > chattiness. Admittedly, XML is verbose. However, you should be able to easily achieve 10:1 compression with standard gzip libraries. For one of my DNS zone scanning projects, I generate 8GB XML files which compress down to 700MB with no problems. -andy