Re: mnot-03, Infoset & syntax in sect. 2

[Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lucas W. Fletcher wrote:
> From: "Bob Wyman" <bob@xxxxxxxx>
> > Yes, bandwidth is a major concern. I'm building a system that
> > must consume a significantly large percentage of all the RSS and/or
> > Atom feeds on the web on a continuous basis. Thus, bandwidth concerns
> > are a *very* major concern.
>
> I am really suprised Atom support for aggregators registrering for
> notification events (push or subscription model) has not been pushed more
> strongly (I've only read scattered references in the wiki), as this would
> far and away reduce bandwidth more than any other technique as well as allow
> aggregators to actually be timely and thus useful.

+1
Binary is going to save you maybe 30%, and I'd be surprised of more than 
5% of the atom feeds will provide a binary counterpart. So if you want 
to save bandwidth, you'll have to be smarter than going binary.

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Sjoerd Visscher
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