What this article describes has already been solved with zip, gzip, 7z, bzip and forks of tar
The problem is that at the moment there is no open standard (there are IETF proposals) since each of these is either patent, copyright or trademark encumbered.
The problem is that at the moment there is no open standard (there are IETF proposals) since each of these is either patent, copyright or trademark encumbered.