[spec] Using a gitlab

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Mansfield once stated:
> 
> I *think* I implemented/tested/tried the IRI thing and I'm thinking that
> I'm not in the group-size-two that you referred to.

  First off, I want to thank you if you have implemented IDNs (no matter how
good or bad---just the fact that you did is wonderful).  Second, you are
right, you are the third (if I recall correctly, not many people mentioned
it) to do so.  

> The sentence I just wrote is *not* my point - I'm totally cool with the
> above (what I and you and others wrote/expressed) - my point is... I was
> thinking...
> 
> If I *thought* I tried out the IRI thing, but wanted to check, where would
> I go? What would I test? How would I 'certify'?
>
> If I wanted to be a part of the discussion in a
> trying-to-implement-this-new-experiment way, what should I do?

  A great question, and fortunately, there is an answer, at least for
clients:  try fetching the following IRI:

	gemini://café.mozz.us/files/𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎.txt

Not my site, but the size of the other person who bothered to experiment
with this stuff.  And as for details, it would be nice to know:

	operating system
	implementation language
	possible libraries in use

and if it works, what you had to do in order to get it to work.  

> I'm guessing that maybe an email to the list or a comment on a gitlab issue
> to the effect of: "I think this is what it means to test out the IRI thing.
> I think I did it, you can try out my implementation like this..."
> 
> That feels... good to me...

  There is an issue with how I think it should work:

	https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification/protocol/-/issues/1

but I've been told that no, what I wrote is *wrong*, but as of yet, no one
has given a concrete approach for clients to follow to get this to work. 
That's what pisses me off about this---I wrote what worked for me, but it's
wrong [1], but no one has told me how to go about doing it right, and I'm
very close to closing the ticket with prejudice [2], with the only way to
get IRIs back on the table is to convince Solderpunk, the BDFL (I'm only the
BDFLA, the Benevolent Dictator For Life's Assistant).  So the more concrete
information I get for OR against it, the better.

  -spc

[1]	Mostly about resolving IDNs.

[2]	An American legal term meaning---when a legal case is dismissed with
	prejudice, the case is closed, and there is NO means of appeal. 
	It's not used often, and when it does happen, it means the judge was
	royally pissed off.