Allow someone to create and manage a contact list. They can add things like name, avatar, twitter handle, etc and associate it with a certain pubkey. This will enable a better UI for people who want to manage a list of people they talk to (instead of dealing with potentially long / unclear pubkeys or aliases). This will also enable features like 'only allow messages from contacts' or maybe in the future 'charge people more to receive messages unless they are in my contacts', etc.
It's both a UI enhancement and a way to whitelist certain nodes.
Allow someone to create and manage a contact list. They can add things like name, avatar, twitter handle, etc and associate it with a certain pubkey. This will enable a better UI for people who want to manage a list of people they talk to (instead of dealing with potentially long / unclear pubkeys or aliases). This will also enable features like 'only allow messages from contacts' or maybe in the future 'charge people more to receive messages unless they are in my contacts', etc.
It's both a UI enhancement and a way to whitelist certain nodes.