Mercury

• 🗣️ From: Phil Leblanc (philanc (a) gmail.com)
• 📅 Sent: 2020-06-23 04:46
• 📧 Message 1 of 51

Hi all,

I have very recently discovered Gemini, so I am late at the party, but
very excited by the Gemini concept and philosophy.

At the same time, I am a bit disappointed by the mandatory use of TLS
in the protocol. It seems _so_ at odds with the overall philosophy and
simplicity of Gemini...  But I _do_ understand that there is momentum
behind TLS usage.

Looking for discussion about this TLS issue, I found in a message by
Petite Abeille [1] a link to the Mercury document [2] by Solderpunk.

I don't know when it was published and couldn't find a discussion
about Mercury (i.e. Gemini without TLS)

What I would like to know:


	
is the Mercury document an old document that has been already

discussed and the concept discarded?  (any link to the discussion?)


	
is the concept still "alive"?  is the document still "open for comments"?



	
are there Gemininauts interested in Mercury?



	
are there clients and servers targeting both Gemini and Mercury?

(i.e. the Gemini concept with and without TLS)


	
has a solution been proposed for the two protocols coexistence?

(e.g. port 1965 for Gemini and 1963 for Mercury  (the year of the last
Mercury flight :-)

I am sorry if it has already been hashed and rehashed. And thanks in
advance for your answers about any of the points above

Phil

[1] gemini://gemi.dev/gemini-mailing-list/messages/001237.gmi

[2] https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk
/cornedbeef/the-mercury-protocol.gmi

---

Next in thread (2 of 51): 🗣️ defdefred (defdefred (a) protonmail.com)

View entire thread.