Re: encodings, base-64, etc.

Excerpts from ext.ietf-822: 30-Oct-91 Re: encodings, base-64, etc.
Craig_Everhart(_at_)transarc(_dot_) (1388)

> I would press for a base64 checksum as part of the encoding itself, much
> as Henry Spencer's revisited-uuencoding has done it, immediately.  I
> would attempt to let the other checksummers slug it out independently.
I generally agree, though putting it in as a parameter in the
"-Encoding" header is tempting, too.

Bill