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NCC-05: The Missing Layer for Peer-to-Peer Applications

Today, we successfully demonstrated the power of NCC-05 (Identity-Bound Service Locator Resolution) by building a functional reference implementation: NCC-P2P-CLI .

Services Without DNS

Many networked systems assume that services must be named in order to be reachable. That assumption quietly binds identity, trust, and location together, making services brittle when they move, change networks, or need to limit who can find them. An alternative approach is to treat services as identities first and locations as optional, temporary attributes. From this framing, services can publish signed statements describing how they may be reached, while clients resolve those statements as data rather than through a naming hierarchy. Identity remains stable even as endpoints change or disappear. The result is infrastructure that tolerates mobility, partial availability, and privacy requirements without relying on DNS or other centralised resolution systems.

NCC-06: Identity-first relay discovery and reachability

NCC-06 exists to address this problem directly. It defines an identity-first relay participation profile that allows relays to be discovered, resolved, and connected to using signed Nostr data, without relying on DNS or central registries.

NCC-00: Publishing Nostr Community Conventions on Nostr

NCCs are lightweight, Nostr-native conventions for client and ecosystem behaviour. Not protocol rules, not enforced standards. Just documented patterns that emerge, get copied, and evolve.

NCC-00: Publishing Nostr Community Conventions on Nostr

Nostr Syndicated Feeds Convention (NSF-01)

A lightweight, Nostr-native convention for mirroring RSS or Atom feeds with provenance, deduplication, and update handling.

Nostr-Native Service Discovery and Trust (Draft v0.1)

Exploring a small, Nostr-native way for apps to discover and verify pubkey-owned services. Instead of relying on DNS and public CAs, this approach uses signed service records, key pinning, and optional third-party attestations to let Nostr apps securely connect to user-run backends. It is intentionally narrow, experimental, and aimed at builders rather than end users.

Nostr Proposal Kind (Draft)

This document proposes a new Nostr event kind representing **protocol-level proposals**. These events are used to publish, revise, and reference proposals for Nostr conventions, new kinds, or other protocol behaviours directly on Nostr itself.

Nostr as a Place to Share Ideas and Research

Nostr can act as an open, permissionless layer for sharing ideas, theories, and early research. It does not replace journals or peer review, but removes many of the barriers that stop ideas from being shared early. By allowing anyone to publish under a persistent identity, show revision history, and invite open critique, Nostr makes it easier for independent and interdisciplinary work to be seen, discussed, and improved in public.

Outsider Theorists, Generative AI and the Participation Threshold