> Because compression is completely orthogonal I agree. This was my thought throughout the article. Most of the features he wanted like checksumming and compre

> Because compression is completely orthogonal I agree. This was my thought throughout the article. Most of the features he wanted like checksumming and compression would be better provided on other layers. I think the reason that base64 is so popular is that it does one thing well. You can always add checksumming, but it often isn't needed.