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 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? 
  i wrote it up as a draft spec originally on github - just to have it out there. I'm not asking any change to the protocol, but ideas on how events can be organized and retreived. Its been on github since December, but its gotten way more visibility and feedback here. 
 Cool, I missed it on github then. The spec on wikifreedia seems much more generic than NUDs, almost a competing spec to the wiki one. So maybe it's not as applicable as I thought? 
 Generic is the point, i wouldn't say it competes however. A wiki has a spec for their articles. This spec is attempting to distil ideas individually so they can be worked with an grouped together. It comes with a 30041 which is very related to wikis 30023, but 30041 are just fragmented notes - and wouldn't be typically be shown by themselves. 30041 basically is an indication that it belongs to something broader - you can decompose a existing blog or paper, or you can just publish a modular article with the explicit concept that the ideas can be separated.

You'd show them as a modular article, or note collection, via 30040 which can be a collection of any event type. I wouldn't expect any client other than what we are making to display the individual fragments. 
 that stands for Nostr Knowledge Base Implementation Possibility because it's a spec describing how to form a knowledge base.

a spec for a specific use case, not a new type of spec 
 Ok, so NUDs are a new idea then? What do you dislike about them? They seem to solve most of your complaints, in that they're:

- Permissionless
- Published in a wiki format
- Forkable and can be voted on
- Nostr-native 
 I personally don't have a problem with the specific idea. An NKBIP can perfectly have a NUD tag if someone wants to add it, i just don't think it adds more meaning than NKBIP. 

Not an argument against a NUD, just that if things are already going to be so different, a global naming convention wouldn't make sense, and that NKBIP announces the purpose within its name. 
 There's value in posting a spec in a real wiki event.