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Will Gemini ever become a standardized protocol?

almaember almaember at disroot.org

Thu Mar 25 07:26:03 GMT 2021

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On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 02:13:02 +0000Jordan <jordan at crowesnest.io> wrote:

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

benefits be if it does?

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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

[1]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/best-practices.gm

One benefit would be a more definitive standard. We could also registerthe port so no other software will use it.

And Gemini might also get into projects like cURL.