> On Dec 20, 2020, at 02:56, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote: > > Note however that this is not normally bilateral. There is no way (like Telnet WILL/WONT/DO/DONT) for the server to find out what extensions the client supports. Consequently, servers either have to exploit no client extensions, or just use whatever client extensions they would like, and if clients don't support them, tough turkey for the user. All is client driven, the server merely advertises its capabilities. Of course, the client could do the same: C: gemini://mozz.us/.well-known/capability?persist+size > The spirit of Gemini is that that clients and servers agree because they all voluntarily comply with the current standard. (Solderpunk keeps talking about a permanent freeze, but _haud credo_. What matters is that evolution of the protocol document stays controlled and that software authors have no incentive to ignore it.) The standard becoming the baseline. > (The .sig below was chosen at random.) Lucky draw.
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