Favored Base32 Alphabet?

"Gordon Mohr" <gojomo@bitzi.com> Wed, 03 October 2001 02:20 UTC

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From: Gordon Mohr <gojomo@bitzi.com>
To: ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Favored Base32 Alphabet?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 17:25:11 -0700
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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?

- Gordon
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