Re: nostr + rww

Hi All

Nostr has grown quite a bit lately, I've proposed the following community
group, for those that might be interested in the tech

https://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/#nostr

Feel free to support/join

Best
Melvin

so 21. 1. 2023 v 16:33 odesílatel Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
napsal:

> Hi All
>
> I've flagged the Open Source nostr project before [1] and in the last
> month it has exploded in popularity.  It's gone from 700 to 200,000 users,
> including 2 billionaires and 1 US Senator.  Over 100 developers have come
> into the project in this time and over 100 new projects have been started
>
> Fromer CEO Jack Dorsey is supporting the project, which he sees as a more
> decentralized twitter, plus a platform to create 1000s of "unhoste" micro
> apps, thus separating
>
> It's an interesting approach.  When we made solid we did RESTful storage
> first, then added websockets.  Nostr is websockets first, which has become
> a w3c standards in the last years, but it lacks personal online data
> storage.  It's a great user experience because everything is real time.
>
> However, through the magic of awww and URIs it might be possible to marry
> the two together, and create the best of both worlds
>
> It might be possible in this group to come up with a design and/or spec to
> create storage for nostr, which is simplu pub/sub protocol over websockets
> (similar to solid) but with compact key pairs and signatures
>
> How would it work?
>
> You have an http: and file: space which are part of the web.  Running an
> enhanced web server you can access those files.  Optionally it could be
> backed by a database.  Authentication would be via key pair and signature
> (either challenge response, or sending a signed blob).  Access control
> would be the same as solid, where a URI that can read/write/control/append
> a resource.  It should be able to read and write files and data, using web
> standards
>
> This would lead to a Turing complete web operating system, similar to
> Solid, but less dependent on DNS, however already there are two way ties to
> the http: space so nostr can benefit from the exiting web world.  It should
> also be largely compatible with most of solid too, because URIs could be
> extended to webid
>
> It might be possible to quite quickly prototype this, either by, say,
> extending node solid server, or a simple proof of concept from scratcy.
> What's needed
>
> - web server
> - Authentication hand shake
> - URI scheme for access
> - access control list with read/write/append/conrol
>
> This could be a valuable addition to the read write web, already using
> well tested standards such as websockets, and adding modern compact PKI and
> signature schemes such as Schnorr
>
> It's well worth checkout out nostr.  IMHO it's right now the most exciting
> project in the social free software space, from a developer perspective
>
> [1] https://www.nostr.net/
>