I would like to amend the spec. The hash column of RECORD should be

'sha256:' + urlsafe_b64encode(hashlib.sha256(data))

instead of the hopelessly obsolete md5. With a secure hash function,
you can digitally sign RECORD.

It would also make sense to allow RECORD to be omitted from RECORD.
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