Prime motivation

The base16b.org web site was started both as a means to an end and as an end in itself.

There is a particular use case for a binary encoding method which I have in mind: structured binary data  between 0.1Kib to over 100Kib, communicated over web transport layers, for semantic tagging. That data format is itself new and I hope to announce it here some time soon.

In the mean time, base16b seems like it could be a good generic solution to the problem of more efficient, standards-compliant binary data encoding in Unicode. So I decided to spin it off as a separate project. Should this encoding method gain general acceptance, it seems likely that others may step-in to contribute with their improvements to the design. Eventually we can get into standardisation.

This eponymous web site and its blog are intended to become a focus of discussion for interested developers.