Draft spec changes for comments

[Hannu Hartikainen]

Looks good to me. I noticed there's a lone tab on row 322; maybe fix that
too.

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 21:16, solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> At gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification-modified.gmi you
> will find a modified version of the current spec.  If you download it,
> along with the current spec from
> gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi, you can `diff`
> them to see the changes.  These changes are a tentative version of those
> I want to make before making a new official update and then, at last,
> freezing the spec again.  I'm making them available now so people can
> point out oversights or suggest improvements.
>
> The changes are:
>
> * Fix a section numbering error
> * Define the gemini URI scheme, and explicitly disallow the userinfo
>   subcomponent of the authority component, protecting us from Petite
>   Abeille's "auto cookie" construct.
> * Add a minimal definition of alt text to the definition of preformatted
>   mode toggle lines, to address accessability and searchability
>   concerns, as well as to close, or at least ameliorate, the
>   extensibility loophole identified by Katarina Eriksson.
> * A simplification of the client certificate status codes and details,
>   including removing transient client certificates as a formally defined
>   construct with prescribed behaviour.
>
> I hope that the alt text and client certificate stuff can be augmented
> by best practices established outside the spec itself to fill in
> details.
>
> If people think we can do a better job of the above changes, I'm happy
> to hear about it, but I don't want to consider any non-trivial changes
> other than the above before a nice long freeze.
>
> Cheers,
> Solderpunk
>
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