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Mercury

Phil Leblanc philanc at gmail.com

Tue Jun 23 05:46:11 BST 2020

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Hi all,

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

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

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

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

What I would like to know:

is the Mercury document an old document that has been alreadydiscussed 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 lastMercury flight :-)

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

Phil

[1] https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/001237.html

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