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Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Tue Oct 26 09:34:03 BST 2021
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It was thus said that the Great Robert khuxkm Miles once stated:
October 25, 2021 9:48 PM, "Rohan Kumar" <seirdy at seirdy.one> wrote:
Adding features is typically misguided: it's better to *complement*
Gemini with other protocols suited for other purposes than to *extend*
it. One such protocol is the spartan:// client-to-server protocol.
Gemini can concentrate on supporting server-to-many-client situations
while Spartan can concentrate on client-to-server communication.
(This is not necessarily an endorsement of Spartan; I do have some
issues with it, but that's off-topic).
I feel like that's a mischaracterization of Spartan. In the past, I've
described Spartan as "gemini - tls + uploads", because that's basically
what it is (barring some things like the =: line type for input links, and
the one-character status codes). It's more its own protocol that happens
to take design cues from Gemini (Sean, if I'm completely missing the point
here, please do tell me, but this is the impression I've gotten so far).
Perhaps you meant Titan?
I have nothing to do with Spartan. Titan, yes---I came up with theinitial idea, and it's Alex Schroeder who implemented and expanded on theidea. But I have looked a bit into Spartan---it was developed by MichaelLazar, and indeed, it seems to be "gemini - tls + uploads" (and he mighthave been inspired by titan, inimeg or discursi. Titan is more"an upload protocol".
There was also inimeg: (the same as titan:) and yet another scheme(discursi?) that I can't find right now.
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