It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated: > > > For one, as both an author & a reader, I like to have text anchored in > time. Nothing happen in a vacuum. > > gemini and text/gemini have no notion of time at all. > > Instead people tend to compensate by haphazardly leaving contextual > breadcrumbs here and there about such basic information: > > ? gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/ > => 0001 0001 2019-08-01 PROPOSED MIME type and parameters for Gemini Index Files > => 0002 0002 2019-08-01 ACCEPTED Resource request format for Gemini > => 0003 0003 2019-08-01 PROPOSED Response header to include optional file size in reply > => 0004 0004 2019-09-06 PROPOSED Gemini index format If you check those links, you'll see I already include such metadata in the document itself, not just on the link line. So the above links are not a good example for you here. > The authorship tag gives a simple and consistent way to embed such date in > the text/gemini document itself. In a machine readable way. And the "authorship" is not authorship per se, but the authority. The tag: URI includes either a domain *or* an email address. It's meant to be used for identification of a resource, not authorship of a document. > Furthermore, the tag provides, well, authorship information: who did it? > > E.g. gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk points to solderpunk actual home > at circumlunar. > > This could be used creatively, by, say, uniquely styling ~solderpunk > documents with sigil, color scheme, whatnot: > > ? gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk ? f01c0885 ? 4028369029 ? ~lapryt-fidseg ? sigil > > This provides a more stable and granular alternative to the host IP > address or certificate. > > Finally, the tag itself is rather readable on its own: > > tag:gemini.conman.org <http://gemini.conman.org/>,2019-08-01:gRFC/0002 <gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/0002>#20:46:12 It would help your case if you generated valid tag: URIs, like: tag:gemini.conman.org,2019-08-01:gRFC0001:PROPOSED:Sean%20Conner But that's not easy for humans to parse (they can) because of the encoding and the lack of actual whitespace. -spc
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