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Mercury

Felix Queißner felix at masterq32.de

Tue Jun 23 09:53:44 BST 2020

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Hey!

* is the concept still "alive"? is the document still "open forcomments"?

I think Mercury was just a thought experiment, but it sounds like we canspec that out to be fully usable (specify port and such)

* are there Gemininauts interested in Mercury?Yeah, definitly. It sounds like the perfect match for embedded devices,as it requires no encryption and no complex state machines.

* are there clients and servers targeting both Gemini and Mercury?

(i.e. the Gemini concept with and without TLS)Probably in some hours? I'm really tempted to implement a mercury://into Kristall and provide people a client they can use :)

* 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 aboveTo my knowledge we haven't had a discussion about Mercury yet and it'ssimple enough to "just be used"

Regards- xq