> > This requires new application protocol verbs "STARTCOMPRESSION",
> > "STOPCOMPRESSION", and underlying support in the TLS layer.


> I wonder if it would have been possible to do this via renegotiation, though
> this has overhead.

Intriguing, but moot of course, since renegotiation is gone. :)  Interesting 
corner-cases to think about:  is compression restarted, or do you preserve all 
state to pick up where you left off (e.g., the zlib dictionary)?  Either either 
one probably has some security issues to think about.

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