Subject: RE: IPCOMP over a good quality network.

From: Roy Pereira <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:07:43 -0500

IPPCP was intended for IP which of course is unreliable, so _stateful_
compression doesn't fit very well.  

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Avram Shacham [SMTP:[email-masked]]
>Sent:	Friday, February 27, 1998 4:38 PM
>To:	Stephen Waters; [email-masked]
>Subject:	Re: IPCOMP over a good quality network.
>
>Steve,
>
>At 09:07 PM 2/27/98 -0000, Stephen Waters wrote:
>>
>>Is there any scope for using IPCOMP in a 'state-full' way (e.g.
>>multi-packet history)  
>
>No. As the draft clearly states, IPComp is supports only stateless
>compression:
>
>   Each IP datagram is compressed and decompressed by itself without any
>   relation to other datagrams ("stateless compression"), as IP
>   datagrams may arrive out of order or not arrive at all.
>
>> when the quality of the link is suitable,  for
>>example between two IPSEC Security gateways connected over a Frame Relay
>>PVC?
>
>Is there a reliable IP layer, even when the "link is suitable"?
>
>avram
>