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Re: Favored Base32 Alphabet?

Alexey Melnikov <mel@messagingdirect.com> Wed, 03 October 2001 05:50 UTC

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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:47:52 -0600
From: Alexey Melnikov <mel@messagingdirect.com>
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Gordon Mohr wrote:

> There are multiple Base32 alphabets floating about
> in Internet-Drafts. For example,
>
> ABCDEFGHIJK MN PQRSTUVWXYZ  23456789
> in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-dude-02.txt
>
> and
>
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ  234567
> in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-josefsson-base-encoding-02.txt
>
> Is there any officious IETF document or statement favoring
> one or the other Base32 alphabet for new work?
>
> Any chance that the Josefsson I-D will become an RFC of
> any sort?

There is a good chance that it will become RFC as a document of SASL Working
Group.

Alexey Melnikov
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