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Note that for basic interactive clients for human use, errors 4 and 5 may be effectively handled identically, by simply displaying the contents of <META> under a heading of "ERROR". The temporary/permanent error distinction is primarily relevant to well-behaving automated clients. Basic clients may also choose not to support client-certificate authentication, in which case only four distinct status handling routines are required (for statuses beginning with 1, 2, 3 or a combined 4-or-5).
The full two-digit system is detailed in Appendix 1. Note that for each of the six valid first digits, a code with a second digit of zero corresponds is a generic status of that kind with no special semantics. This means that basic servers without any advanced functionality need only be able to return codes of 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50.
The Gemini status code system has been carefully designed so that the increased power (and correspondingly increased complexity) of the second digits is entirely "opt-in" on the part of both servers and clients.