[spec] Will Gemini ever become a standardized protocol?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:16:27PM +0100,
 almaember <almaember@disroot.org> wrote 
 a message of 21 lines which said:

> I understand that this is a very young protocol, but I wanted to post
> this question anyway. Do you think Gemini will ever become a
> standard?

There are vague plans to submit Gemini to the IETF and get a RFC. As
of now, it seems a very distant project. In the mean time, there is
work going on to get a proper specification, you can follow it at
<https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification/>.

> Even if not a standard published by a big organization like the ISO,
> ECMA, IETF or IEEE,

I certainly hope that closed organisations like ISO or IEEE won't be
used.