Subnostr

A consideration on NIP-05...

Instead of clients always querying the .well-known/nostr.json from the respective domain...

Would it be more reliable, to have relays act as intermediary proxies with a TTL on the target?

Yes I realize this acts like a form of centralization, and relays could yield fake data, but this is already a problem with ISPs, domain registrars and DNS at large considering the content of the .well-known/nostr.json isn't signed (and if it were its still a turtle's all the way down issue of trust)

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Brick 2y ago

That sounds like advanced peer to peer networks, involving network nodes and end nodes to help relay data streams between CP-CP connections or major nodes through enterprise extenders.

Keeping data integrity between each hop is hard without encryption over the Internet but then the sender needs to know the end node for decryption, which could give away the route.

Mainframes and existing financial systems can get away with this because of network layering, network security, api security, and dark fiber.