npubs will replace IP addresses for identifying snd retrieving content. but will there be an analog to domain names, a human readable layer, something not nip05?

nostr is heavily dependent on DNS though

Perhaps the Internet just needs Machine Readable Names to work re: Dead Internet Theory InterNet shifts to MachineNet and humans can go back to enjoying natureNet 😆

I agree there's a lot that can be done by just not having the human readable layer. maybe that is enabled by WoT. still, there is probably room for something human readable, even if it's something more like seedwords for an npub, just to allow people to speak it.

we could drop the dns and get away with using bare IP addresses, but that would be a painful hack. we'd end up with people camping on easily remembered IP addresses recapitulating DNS inside nostr. hmm.

IP addresses are still issued from a top-down authority at some stage, but KYC is probably the primary issue there. Having them issuable without any form of identity tied to them (or at least obfuscating it as much as possible) would be the gold standard. cc @k03rader @Arjen