* Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>That adds significantly to the size of the identifiers.
>
>For my application the amount of space that is available to transport
>the identifiers will be constrained. Thus if X bytes permits 100 sites
>to be secured using a base64 encoding, use of base16 will drop that to
>60 or so.

So? Maybe for my application I want people to easily compare the URI
with the output from GNU sha256sum which does not have an option for
your particular Base 64 dialect, and maybe you should use Base 256
without a "digest:" prefix if size is so important?
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