[announce] Delegation of responsibility for spec finalisation

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 07:52:41PM -0500,
 Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote 
 a message of 22 lines which said:

>   Long anser:  If you want to explore alternative transport security
> methods, go to town with an implementation, get the crypto community to pass
> it and *then* present it to the Gemini community.  At that point, the
> discussion can commence.
> 
> One of the primary motivations of Gemini was adding TLS to gopher, and to
> avoid the whole http: vs https: that infests the web.

Note that we may have to address the QUIC issue. The RFCs on QUIC (a
transport protocol, alternative to TCP, with mandatory crypto) are
almost published, and we may have to consider wether to use it. QUIC
is very targeted towards the Web (for instance with multiplexing
because, unlike Gemini, Web pages are made of several resources) so it
may be better to ignore it, that's something to think about.