I feel like the word "protocol", is just abused like it is a glorified marketing term. Kind of like how the word "hacker" was abused in everything else that had nothing to do with hacking.

MCP was just a glorified way of tool calling but generated so much hype (and it eventually died down). Now we have MPP. Which again - could have just been another tool call exposed to the agent.

Imagine you hire someone who claimed to have invented a new protocol and you're thinking of something like TCP or UDP, but all they share is just a markdown file.

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ai-inquisitor 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The good ol' folks at Stripe's collaborators Tempo Labs tried to make an RFC-style description page for MPP: https://paymentauth.org/ (full doc on IETF draft page: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ryan-httpauth-payment...)

I almost was going to point it out as evidence there was thought put into it. Nope, it's flimsy and AI generated.

Also, it contains provisions for scamming customers:

> 403 indicates the payment succeeded but access is denied by policy

No, it doesn't explain how to refund payments for customers you deny access to.

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NetOpWibby an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I recently redesigned my blog to look like a modern RFC and I'm loving the way they've decided to render tables in their plain text, definitely gonna steal that.

On topic though, Stripe is trying to make themselves the Visa/Mastercard of crypto. They're in position to do so and it seems like Coinbase is their other half. I don't trust or like it though.

	▲	ahnick 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The best Visa/Mastercard of crypto already exists and is called Flexa. (https://flexa.co/payments#pricing)

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Xirdus 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This one is even worse IMO

> Servers MAY return 402 when:

> * Offering optional paid features or premium content

This implies that a successful GET request to a resource that user already does have access to, might still return 402 instead of 200. This makes 402 basically unworkable.

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pertsix 3 hours ago | parent [-]

An RFC is a request for comments, contributions.

Are you open to contributing to this RFC?

	▲	darkwater 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Will they get a slice of the earnings in return by Stripe?
	▲	john_strinlai an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		that doesnt sound nearly as fun as getting upvotes, if im honest
	▲	pear01 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Was it AI generated? If so, should I just delegate my AI to do so?

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brendan_j_ryan an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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devmor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been thinking this, but never really put it into words.

Every time I see one of these I think "You are just describing an API".

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treyd 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think this started when "web3" cryptocurrency projects started using the term to pretend that something which isn't much more than a service that uses a blockchain network to move money around was actually somehow "decentralized" and that that made it more trustworthy.