Re: Favored Base32 Alphabet?

[Graham Klyne <GK at ninebynine.org>]

At 05:25 PM 10/2/01 -0700, 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?

Also,

     BASE32DIGIT = DIGIT
                 / "A" / "B" / "C" / "D" / "E" / "F" / "G" / "H"
                 / "I" / "J" / "K" / "L" / "M" / "N" / "O" / "P"
                 / "Q" / "R" / "S" / "T" / "U" / "V"

in RFC 2938.  (I won't claim this is the best possible arrangement, or in 
any way an official preference;  it just seemed to be an easy way at the 
time, kind of like an extension of hexadecimal.  Hand transcription was not 
a significant requirement here.)

#g


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