On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:16:03PM +1000, Thomas Karpiniec wrote: > One place I previously used gopher was IP routed over VHF packet > radio. These links are 1200 baud simplex with an effective throughput > of some 80 B/s. I'm not saying gemini can or should care what weirdos > are doing with VHF radios, but it may one day find use in scenarios > where quantities much less then 1 MB matter. If you're using such a > slow link, you might have to waste quite a lot of time to realise that > you're getting an above-average amount of content, reducing the > effectiveness of a client-side threshold. In general I'm very happy to entertain the needs of weirdos doing non-conventional networking where it doesn't conflict with wider goals. That said, the unavoidable TLS overhead in Gemini means it's unlikely to be a good match for super slow network scenrios like packet radio. We might be able to squeeze it down by pushing adoption of compact signature algorithms and encouraging use of TLS 1.3's session resumption, but in general there will be kilobytes of overhead going on. If quantities much less than 1 MiB matter, I don't think any status codes are going to make Gemini feasible. Cheers, Solderpunk
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