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Will Gemini ever become a standardized protocol?

Jordan jordan at crowesnest.io

Thu Mar 25 02:13:02 GMT 2021

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Eh, I couldnt care less if it does or not. What would the big benefits be if it does?

-------- Original Message --------On Mar 24, 2021, 6:16 PM, almaember wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering. Right now, Gemini uses a non-registered protocol

schema (gemini://) and a non-registered MIME-type (text/gemini).

The specification is a self-identified "pseudo-specification", and is

often not specific enough, leading to a number of de facto standards,

and the main website took a descriptive approach, and simply

collected[1] these "standards".

I understand that this is a very young protocol, but I wanted to post

this question anyway. Do you think Gemini will ever become a standard?

Even if not a standard published by a big organization like the ISO,

ECMA, IETF or IEEE, will text/gemini and the gemini url scheme ever be

registered with the IANA?

Cheers,

almaember

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