Re: nostr community group

Hi Melvin,

Highly interesting and looking forward to dive more into the details!

Best,
Andrei


> On 26 Apr 2023, at 17:41, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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> st 26. 4. 2023 v 17:28 odesílatel Fabien Gandon <fabien.gandon@inria.fr <mailto:fabien.gandon@inria.fr>> napsal:
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>> Hello Melvin,
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>> Thanks for establishing the liaison and sharing the pointers.
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> You are welcome, the community group is now formed:
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> https://www.w3.org/community/nostr/
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> I am happy to answer any questions that you have on nostr.
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> A few words.  The reason I think nostr is good for autonomous agents, is that there is a low barrier to participation.  An agent needs only a keypair, and ability to sign a json blob using a schnorr signature, and it'e ready to go.  The network passes json blobs from one machine to another via relays, and there are over 1000 relays now running across the globe.
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> In addition to this, the json can be used over the web, and used to authenticate [1]
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> So it's cheap to get agents onto an existing, quite large, network, and communicating with each other.  I have also made a linked data vocab and context for nostr:
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> https://w3id.org/nostr#Relay  (view source)
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> Which can be extended to many agent vocabs.
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> We still have a lots to do and thing about, such as orchestration, maintenance, strong versioning of agents and so on.  But I hope this can be one extra tool and network that will provide utility.
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> [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/469
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>> Best,
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>> De: "Melvin Carvalho" <melvincarvalho@gmail.com <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>>
>> À: "public-webagents" <public-webagents@w3.org <mailto:public-webagents@w3.org>>
>> Envoyé: Mardi 25 Avril 2023 16:07:30
>> Objet: nostr community group
>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> I am writing to inform you about the proposal for a new W3C Community Group focused on the Nostr protocol [1].
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>> Nostr is a web protocol that strives to be user and machine-friendly. Over the past six months, it has experienced significant growth, expanding from 1,000 to 10 million accounts, many of which are agents with varying autonomy levels.
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>> I would like to cordially invite you to support or join the Nostr Community Group and consider the Nostr protocol as a potential target for software-based autonomous agents.
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>> https://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/#nostr
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>> Built primarily upon the W3C WebSockets standard, Nostr facilitates real-time collaboration. In addition, I am in the process of developing an HTTP implementation, featuring a WebDAV-like extension called NosDAV [2].
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>> I am optimistic that these Community Groups can work together to create engaging demonstrations showcasing multi-user software and, potentially, hardware agents.
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>> I look forward to the possibility of working together to advance concepts of collaborating autonomous agents, on the web.
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>> Best Wishes, 
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>> Melvin
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>> [1] https://nostr.com/ 
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>> [2] https://nosdav.com/
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