my personal feeling towards specifications that introduce bespoke APIs for a one purpose functionality that can be already done is that they're misplaced effort.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (npub1764…nuj0), or the SWICG, have a tendency to ignore previous art when they come up with these random specifications. That document of mine you linked to was actually turned into FEP-6606, so it's as visible as anything would be to the SWICG.
I already argued enough about the media upload end point that I don't have the energy to drop what I'm working on and jump on the mailing list and IRC to draft and present a coherent case for why I think they are bad.
marius
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2026-09-02 07:51:41 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…ljgg
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