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remove base1 #57
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Stebalien
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Jul 25, 2019
- It's not used anywhere.
- It's absolutely useless.
- It's making our lives harder in libp2p (inline peer IDs currently start with 1).
1. It's not used anywhere. 2. It's absolutely useless. 3. It's making our lives harder in libp2p (inline peer IDs currently start with 1).
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@Stebalien I’d say we need to reserve codepoint 1 explicitly, explaining why (causes ambiguity with ed25519 peer IDs encoded as CIDv1). Basically a vestigial collision.
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Well, that and Q. But we'd like to eventually be able to simply drop both. |
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Remove it! It's the same PR as #48 which even has more context (that no one implements it).
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Merged in #47. |
We've removed it from the multibase spec: * multiformats/multibase#48 * multiformats/multibase#57
Base1 has been removed from the spec for compatibility/uselessness reasons: * multiformats/multibase#57 * multiformats/multibase#47
Base1 has been removed from the spec for compatibility/uselessness reasons: * multiformats/multibase#57 * multiformats/multibase#47
Base1 has been removed from the spec for compatibility/uselessness reasons: * multiformats/multibase#57 * multiformats/multibase#47
We've removed it from the multibase spec: * multiformats/multibase#48 * multiformats/multibase#57 License: MIT Signed-off-by: Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com>
We've removed it from the multibase spec: * multiformats/multibase#48 * multiformats/multibase#57