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 Mandatory read for all Nostr users: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html 
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 The e-rights team ar HP back in the day was way ahead of things in many respects. 
 Marc's S.F. novel is literary fast food but has some of his ideas in it about organizing future society:

https://www.amazon.com/Earthweb-Marc-Stiegler/dp/067157809X
 
 I love reading about the zookos triangle solutions. For everyone that says it give them a 404, I was able to see it. Its just that it doesn't have https. You can skip the warning 
 Petnames is the only workable system. It should be coupled with a visual indicator of whether the person is familiar to you to prevent spoofing. The equivalent of a blue check for users that I have signed a key for and some other indicator for close degrees of separation. 
 mark miller told me petnames solve for a) unique names on hash b) findable names on easy human renaming c) available humane-naming verified by non-human computer namespace hash

dominic tarr spoken of anyone's public-key as renamable to anything anyone wants, kinda like free speech: rename any hash-name to any human-name you like, just don't expect anyone else to copy


 
 Thanks Fiatguy  
 is it made non-mandatory because namecoin now exists? ie. zooko's triangle solved