A node (client or relay) that doesn't upgrade will see these as broken invalid events. The signature will not match the pubkey field.
In the current NIP-26, at least the events are valid and people can see them, they just don't have a clear association between the signer and the delegator.
So I think this is a worse experience for nodes that don't upgrade.
If every node upgraded it would be fine, but I'm not sure it would be better. Both ways of doing it require code to update either it's signature verification or it's method of associating an author, neither being a harder ask IMHO.
BTW the delegation proof doesn't have to be replicated in every event if we wanted to save space, it could be a separate event.
M. Dilger /
npub1ac…9p35c
2024-07-12 22:40:49
in reply to nevent1q…j7kj
Author Public Key
npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35cPublished at
2024-07-12 22:40:49Event JSON
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"pubkey": "ee11a5dff40c19a555f41fe42b48f00e618c91225622ae37b6c2bb67b76c4e49",
"created_at": 1720816849,
"kind": 1,
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"content": "A node (client or relay) that doesn't upgrade will see these as broken invalid events. The signature will not match the pubkey field.\n\nIn the current NIP-26, at least the events are valid and people can see them, they just don't have a clear association between the signer and the delegator.\n\nSo I think this is a worse experience for nodes that don't upgrade.\n\nIf every node upgraded it would be fine, but I'm not sure it would be better. Both ways of doing it require code to update either it's signature verification or it's method of associating an author, neither being a harder ask IMHO.\n\nBTW the delegation proof doesn't have to be replicated in every event if we wanted to save space, it could be a separate event.",
"sig": "0b084218261caa93b9bff3582347b82d217832a1aea92cafd1559f15853f398a46d729b985013d6783d116f512d71d7637d18087709fc73dbeca12a5ec816190"
}