Re: [apps-discuss] proposing draft-farrell-ni as an appsarea wg item

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Fri, 29 July 2011 16:54 UTC

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> For urn based design, the URN may be too long since SHA256 will have 256
> bytes hash value. Right?
> urn:hash:sha256:NDc0NzgyMGVmOGQ3OGU0...

256 *bits*, so only 32 bytes.  Slightly longer when you base64-encode
it, but it's not too bad.

Barry