Matt Harden
I would agree with Codec.Binary.Base64.
The epithet "Binary" doesn't add any information. Almost all of the possible image and video codecs are binary-based, but that fact is really rather irrelevant to their purpose. It is also irrelevant to the purpose of Base64. I maintain that the primary purpose of Base64 is to encode something as text.
I would prefer Codec.General for any truly general-purpose codecs,
Death to "Misc"! Having a category named something like General or Miscellaneous or Utils, simply conveys no useful information.
The zip file format is a different story; I would suggest FileFormat.Archive.Zip for that.
Surely Codec.Archive.Zip? Again, a zip, tar, or cab archive is not necessarily stored in a file.
I'm not sure public key vs. symmetric deserves an additional level in the hierarchy. Each encryption codec is inherently either sym or PK, and should implement the appropriate interface for its class. I think I'd like Codec.Encryption.PublicKey to be the name of the public key class, which each PK alg. would implement.
I agree with this. Regards, Malcolm