Re: base32 alphabet rant - rhaaaaa rfc3548

[Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Roy Arends <roy@dnss.ec> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >
> > > Roy Arends <roy@dnss.ec> writes:
> > >
> > > > There exist multiple base32 alphabets. The two mostly used are
> > > > "A-Z2-7" (examples in rfc3548) and "0-9A-V" (examples in rfc2938).
> > > We could update RFC 3548 to add an alternative base32 alphabet, to
> > > handle this problem.  I have some other pending nits to that document,
> > > available from <http://josefsson.org/base-encoding/>.
> > That would be a good thing.
>
> I have submitted the draft, and it has been published (see below).
>
> Are there any base-* considerations that you need for NSEC3 that isn't
> in the document?  Any other suggestions?  If not, I'll ask the RFC
> Editor to publish it.

Yes, it should be case-blind. I was going to say that in the NSEC3 I-D, 
but far better if its in RFC3548bis.

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