[Uri-review] Re: Provisional URI scheme registration request: "nostr"
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:01:58 -0000
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Hey Melvin! Good to hear from you, and sorry I didn't give you a heads up before submitting this. Should have. Quick answers: the bech32 form is intentional. NIP-19 recommends hex for storage and the wire protocol, but URIs are the display and sharing case bech32 was made for (checksum, self-describing prefix). Clients compare by decoding to the underlying key or id, not by comparing strings. You are right that NIP-21 should say that explicitly and I'll propose it upstream. On did:nostr, I see them as complementary layers rather than competing, but I'd like to get the mapping right. Want to work out the text together in the did:nostr repo or the NIPs repo, whichever fits better? Best, Alex
- [Uri-review] Provisional URI scheme registration … alex
- [Uri-review] Re: Provisional URI scheme registrat… Melvin Carvalho
- [Uri-review] Re: Provisional URI scheme registrat… alex
- [Uri-review] Re: Provisional URI scheme registrat… Melvin Carvalho
- [Uri-review] [IANA #1456582] Provisional URI sche… David Dong via RT