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Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Mon Mar 15 02:10:18 GMT 2021
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It was thus said that the Great Mansfield once stated:
I *think* I implemented/tested/tried the IRI thing and I'm thinking that
I'm not in the group-size-two that you referred to.
First off, I want to thank you if you have implemented IDNs (no matter howgood or bad---just the fact that you did is wonderful). Second, you areright, you are the third (if I recall correctly, not many people mentionedit) to do so.
The sentence I just wrote is *not* my point - I'm totally cool with the
above (what I and you and others wrote/expressed) - my point is... I was
thinking...
If I *thought* I tried out the IRI thing, but wanted to check, where would
I go? What would I test? How would I 'certify'?
If I wanted to be a part of the discussion in a
trying-to-implement-this-new-experiment way, what should I do?
A great question, and fortunately, there is an answer, at least forclients: try fetching the following IRI:
gemini://café.mozz.us/files/𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎.txt
Not my site, but the size of the other person who bothered to experimentwith this stuff. And as for details, it would be nice to know:
operating system implementation language possible libraries in use
and if it works, what you had to do in order to get it to work.
I'm guessing that maybe an email to the list or a comment on a gitlab issue
to the effect of: "I think this is what it means to test out the IRI thing.
I think I did it, you can try out my implementation like this..."
That feels... good to me...
There is an issue with how I think it should work:
https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification/protocol/-/issues/1
but I've been told that no, what I wrote is *wrong*, but as of yet, no onehas given a concrete approach for clients to follow to get this to work. That's what pisses me off about this---I wrote what worked for me, but it'swrong [1], but no one has told me how to go about doing it right, and I'mvery close to closing the ticket with prejudice [2], with the only way toget IRIs back on the table is to convince Solderpunk, the BDFL (I'm only theBDFLA, the Benevolent Dictator For Life's Assistant). So the more concreteinformation I get for OR against it, the better.
-spc
[1] Mostly about resolving IDNs.
[2] An American legal term meaning---when a legal case is dismissed with prejudice, the case is closed, and there is NO means of appeal. It's not used often, and when it does happen, it means the judge was royally pissed off.