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Will Gemini ever become a standardized protocol?

Genro gemini-lists.orbitalfox.eu at box559.com

Thu Mar 25 09:07:19 GMT 2021

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almaember wrote on 2021-03-25 1:29 a.m.:

On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 01:25:53 -0700

Genro <gemini-lists.orbitalfox.eu at box559.com> wrote:

almaember wrote on 2021-03-25 12:26 a.m.:

On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 02:13:02 +0000

Jordan <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

register the port so no other software will use it.

And Gemini might also get into projects like cURL.

The port is already registered - to someone else.

Port 1965 has been assigned for years to "qsm-gui."

See

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?&page=19

So that's a lost battle for use, isn't it?

At least we could get the MIME type. What is qsm-gui anyway? It's

pretty unlikely we are gonna collide with it.

Apparently port 1965 was registered to "qsm-gui" in 2004 but now is assigned to "tivoli npm", at least as listed here:https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=1965

There's more discussion in this thread from last month:https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/005754.htmland in following replies.