No more Compression Please!

[David RR Webber <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by "William J. Kammerer"
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EDI, either X12 or EDIFACT, has said very little, or nothing, about
compression.  And EDI demands very little of the hardware, except maybe
a few things regarding interoperable character sets (as does XML).  So
whatever are you talking about, David RR? <

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Ah, William, my favourite fan - I mislead you - I was refering to EDI's,
and especially X12's diversions into middleware, encryption, 
binaries and related sundry mechanics - worrying about what
goes on-the-wire.

As you rightly point out none of this was terribly successful and led
to many long hours and months in committee - mostly proving that
we should not have been trying to define something that for most
EDI'rs had little import.   I don;t know why you persist in thinking 
that people think that EDI *sucks* - whatever that means - is this
another acronym?  Simple Unambiguous Commercial Killer Semantics?

"EDI demands very little of the hardware" - now there's something
we can agree on as a good goal here too.

DW.