Mercury

[William Casarin]

Hannu Hartikainen <hannu.hartikainen+gemini at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 19:17, William Casarin <jb55 at jb55.com> wrote:
>
>> setting it up is not the issue. I'm just not a fan of the extra
>> complexity and latency[1]. I would prefer to use a protocol that is as
>> snappy as gopher but with a nicer syntax that is more markdown-friendly.
>> Mercury seems to fit that bill quite nicely.
>>
>
> The Gemini spec does not *require* TCP, so similar levels of snappiness
> could be achieved with QUIC. It does the connection handshake
> simultaneously with the TLS handshake, ending up with no more handshake
> messages than the classical TCP SYN / SYN+ACK / ACK handshake.

Gemini over QUIC would be really cool, as TLS latency is my main gripe
right now.