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[announce] Delegation of responsibility for spec finalisation

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Tue Mar 2 00:52:41 GMT 2021

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It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated:

On Mar 1, 2021, at 22:09, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
My current thinking is a switch to IRI once some details are ironed out.
Fantastic.
Second question: is there any reasonable way to decouple the Transport
Layer Security requirement from the Gemini protocol itself?

Short answer: no.

Long anser: If you want to explore alternative transport securitymethods, go to town with an implementation, get the crypto community to passit and *then* present it to the Gemini community. At that point, thediscussion can commence.

One of the primary motivations of Gemini was adding TLS to gopher, and toavoid the whole http: vs https: that infests the web.

-spc