In which case please reapply my rant to _that_ Rubicon Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> writes: > It was thus said that the Great Sandra Snan once stated: >> We'll look back years from now when gemspace collective standards have a >> complexity that overshadows that of the W3C specifications, and maybe >> we'll recognize that this moment, this post was the Rubicon. Maybe we'll >> think that the Pandora lid was already peeked through to the point of no >> salvation, since an arbitrary sequence of GET requests could become a >> protocol. > > Nope. The Rubicon was passed earlier this year with talk of the titan: > protocol which allowed people to upload content to a Gemini server and has > already been implemented by at least one Gemini server. Just go to this > link: > > https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/thread.html > > and search for "titan". You'll find the threads. Also search for the > thread "Uploading Gemini Content". Again, you'll find the threads. > > What I find sad is that this appears to be separate approach from the > titan: proposal, which either means the designers of this were not aware of > of the previous work, or have rejected the previous work for some unstated > reason---I'm hoping it's the former. > >> The question raised by this isn't just "why Dioscuri?" It's "why should >> we not use sftp, https, JSON, XML, sexp, IRC, SMTP, foo bar baz frotz >> for this problem?" That isn't rhetorical. There could be good answers. I >> just can't think of them. > > Again, check the history of this list. It has been discussed before. > > -spc (Who fears that no one realizes that links to the mailing list > archives are sent in the headers to every message ... )
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