Here's my nostr-replaces-DNS type of wish: I wish the relay-list (nip65 and others) contained an npub identifier for each relay.
Becausw you id relays with npubs, they can advertise multiple websocket urls, including tor onion ones.
That way, if I pick a tor onion relay on a client with tor support, that same relay could be used in another client that did not connect through Tor, since it would just pick the "clearnet url" for that relay npub.
NIP65 capable clients would connect to the propper URL variant of my inbox/outbox relays. That way, I could use onion relays without ruining the gossip outbox model.
There's also potentially more upsides such as relay operators rotating URLs for maintenance or migration.
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2024-06-01 02:54:03
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2024-06-01 02:54:03Event JSON
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