I've noticed that too. This is not hard to solve, if the person writing the NIP wants it to be found. They can do a NUD, or they can submit a PR to the NIPs repo to link to an external NIP, which is also something that exists. But if people don't want to make sure people know about their own standards, there's not much anyone can do.
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You basically announce what you are doing. If others like it, then they will also use, even help refine it. Point me to the exact places in the spec to help me find information i need to know - an address. Or a comment someone said on nostr relating to the situation.
Sure, things could be super mixed up, but you could weight opinions or endorsements to find the best way to find your answers. There are ways to filter out noise, or they will be found because of need.
I wrote two specs on Nostr Knowledge Bases (NKB). How can we navigate nostr's information, on any event. I'm not a web developer, so I have 2 NKBIPs out there (wikifreedia), asking for fast feedback and quick iteration.
If people really like an idea, but if its not actively being worked on, other's can still see and work with it. There may be changes, but wouldn't that be good? The original author can still be in the conversation.
Yeah, you basically need an index. That's the github nips repo README. Of course, it's incomplete because people don't submit PRs to it, but it's there. Wikifreedia's #nud tag or something else could also serve as an index. We just have a tragedy of the commons because these things (or some thing thing) aren't being used.
TIL about NKBIPs. Are these conceptually the same as NUDs?
Standards are necessarily centralized, you can't have each person use their own standard.