The law incentives those other standards, what would incentivise manufaturers, consortiums or users to use an NPP (Nostr Product Pubkey) ?
One thing might be product signing and verification.
What if products had a Nostr *NPRODUCT* instead of the usual GTIN (UPC/EAN/JAN/ISBN/etc) code?
- Manufacturers would own the digital identity of their products, for free, without be locked in the proprietary GTIN (UPC/EAN/JAN/ISBN/etc) market;
- It would be possible for buyers follow a product they own and be alerted about production problems, updates, news and suggestions;
- Nostr e-commerce/reviews apps would have a better integration for products, with a news live feed from the manufacturers;
- Manufacturers could offer a specialized customer support via DM using the product profile;
- Manufacturers could promote resellers, and possibily onboard them on Nostr;
- Manufacturers or sellers could cryptographically certify the purchase of a product to issue a warranty;
Identity attestation is easy, the nproduct is stamped as qrcode on the product or its packaging.
Let's introduce NIP-88, a PR about products classification:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1225
Comments and feedback are welcome!
Discussion
If you mean physically products, this would be nice, unfortunately you cannot sign or attest an object in the physical realm without an authority, see the art market or the counterfeit products one. It will be always possible copy a code and attach it to something.
Btw, do not pay for a code and cryptographically manage it, are some interesting incentives.
