Inter Relay Communication

[securitybrahh]

I don't see any discussion on this. so wanted to know why this is not something we want?

[kehiy]

check nip-77.

[melvincarvalho]

I don't see any discussion on this. so wanted to know why this is not something we want?

It's important, but a wide topic. Could you narrow to some use case(s)

[securitybrahh]

check nip-77.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/negentropy/77.md

this? it just seems to be a bandwidth optimization when same events from different relays are there.

It's important, but a wide topic. Could you narrow to some use case(s)

one use case would be, a relay that combines events from 2 or more relays.

[mikedilger]

Relays can behave as clients and connect to other relays using the nostr protocol.

[securitybrahh]

from nostr.wine's filter relay

• Improve performance and reliability (no duplicate notes, one high performance relay connection instead of 10+)
• Reduce battery and data usage on mobile devices
• Improve content discovery (see notes outside of your follows but still within your trusted network)
• Reduce spam (by default "global" on filter.nostr.wine is limited to the accounts you follow + the accounts your followers follow)
• Full text search of all aggregated notes (https://search.nostr.wine or NIP-50

So I think having some inter-relay spec in these NIP's can halp us provide these things even not fully but still.

In addition to NIP-65, these are the public relays Filter is currently broadcasting events to in real time:

These are the relays that we are currently aggregating events from in real time:

[staab]

To repeat Mike, the client/relay paradigm is just the sort of basic gist of how nostr is architected. Clients can act like relays, and relays can act like clients. Relays can have varying policies, additional protocols can be created to complement relays/clients (examples: blossom for files, multiplextr for deduplicating results server-side, primal-server, bitvora's stuff for wot filtering, algorithms, etc). These solutions are application architecture level and don't really need to be specified per se. The selection of different solutions can happen on the client level, and even on the user level.