Kevin Atkinson

@samholmes > What would it take to get a new base added to the multibase table? I am not sold that Crockford's Base32 is better than than rfc4648 (that we...

@kyledrake concerning some of the issues (in particular the use of cidv1abcde.dweb.link) have a look at https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/1678#issuecomment-157478515 it the full issue rather long but contains lots of useful context in...

@kyledrake if we switch to using Base32 I do not have any strong objection to using crockford over the RFC one. The only reason I would chose the RFC one...

Any objects I have to the increase length are mild. It just that things like increase in length can creep up on you and at some point a few years...

Also, I agree with using lowecase as the default.

@Stebalien @lgierth thanks

So, if we do make base32 the default so that we can represent them on the domain component of the URL, the question I have is: How will we reference...

@mib-kd743naq base 32 is more standard. Also computing base 32 (and base 64) is far cheaper than base 36 or base 58 because non-power of two bases require expensive integer...

@samholmes I don't think anyone here wants to use base64, @mib-kd743naq was arguing for base36.

@mib-kd743naq we are proposing base32 without any padding characters. In that light, I am not sure how base32 is an unwieldy encoding compared to say base 36 or base 58.