RE: [ietf-provreg] Registry Escrow Information as EPP Spec?

["Dan Maharry" <dan@mcd.coop>]

Last I looked, my escrow doc needs to be zipped up with PGP anyway,
which is programmable, so yes it would be smaller.
If you're doing the escrow for .com though, small is relative :)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se [mailto:owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se]
On Behalf Of Andrew Newton
Sent: 27 February 2006 17:17
To: Andrew Sullivan
Cc: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
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

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