@evan I don't think it's going to take a long time. If you have a file host you'd like to propose that we can mirror the Codeberg fediverse/fep repo to, then by all means, propose one.
In any case, the lack of availability of a response over HTTPS should not be taken to mean that a context "doesn't work". Newer W3C specs recommend preloading contexts with known content+hashes ahead-of-time: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/#base-context
> Implementations MUST treat the base context value [...] as already retrieved