[SPEC-CHANGE] lang parameter, minor line type changes, clarifications...

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Mon Jun 8 08:44:38 BST 2020


On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 10:47:41PM +0100, Luke Emmet wrote:
 
> If a client must not make subsequent network requests when interpreting a
> page, does this mean that search engines and crawlers are now non-compliant
> clients? This seems to go much too far.
> 
> I would think the "MUST NOT" would be better as a "SHOULD NOT" in case you
> are adamant to try to shape client behaviour. In my view this is not in
> scope of a protocol and markup format specification.

You raise a good point, about search engines and the like.  Perhaps I
should specify "interactive clients".

And I get that this kind of prescription is beyond what would usually be
thought of as reasonable scope for a protocol spec.  I also realise that
it's entirely unenforcable.  In some very unlikely distant future where
the spec is being preened for actual IETF consideration I might remove
it.  But for now I want to do my best to make sure that Gemini develops
not just a technical specification but a strong cultural sense of the
right and wrong way to use that spec.

Cheers,
Solderpunk


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