[tech] the duplo protocol

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated:
> 
> Turns out, each of the blocks have their own share of idiosyncrasies,
> ambiguities, and, well, complications:
> 
> TLS:  overhead, complexity, support, tofu, no tofu, how to tofu, what is
> tofu?, seitan?, noise? etc, etc, etc...

> URI: URL vs. URI vs. IRI vs. URN vs... data:... userinfo... segment...
> query... reserved characters... encoding... transliteration... dns... etc,
> etc, etc...

> MIME: to size or not to size? extendable or not? parameters or not? Postel
> or not?

> UTF8: Unicode! Normalization! Validation! Internationalization!
> Globalization! IRI! IDN! Emoji! Punycode! Would rather use ASCII in
> practice, considering. Be the rest of the world damned.
> 
> Just saying.

  Okay.  Now what?

  Remove TLS, URIs, MIME and UTF-8 and you are basically left with gopher
(that's down the hall to the right, by the way).

  -spc