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What is HTTP Delta Encoding?: Jeff Mogul, researcher at the Compaq Computer Corporation Western Research Laboratory, explains what delta caching is and how it can help you.

Delta encoding in HTTP - Internet Draft: Most recent version of Jeff Mogul's working delta encoding draft.
HTTP Delta Encoding: A semestrial project in the COMNET Lab in Technion
Delta Compression: Study of delta compression, the algorithmic task of finding common strings between versions of data and using the commonality between versions to compactly encode one version by describing it as a set of changes from its companion.
Delta Compression and Storage Hierarchies: Project at the University of California at Santa Cruz studying delta compression and its use.
Xdelta: A delta-compressed storage managment system named Xdelta, upon which a HTTP delta-compression system called xProxy has been built.