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+On `e` and `p` tags in Text Events (kind 1).
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+`draft` ~`mandatory`~ `author:unclebobmartin`
+
+### A Conventional use of `e` and `p` tags within clients.
+
+The following seems to be the conventions that are used by `Branle`, `Damus`, and `more-speech` for referencing
+events and authors when building a reply.  These conventions help clients build event threads, and alert authors of
+replies.
+
+### Definitions:  
+ * A reply chain is the list of events from the root event to a specific reply.  
+ * A reply thread is the tree of events consisting of all replies beginning at the root.
+ * An event id is a 32 byte number in lower-case hexidecimal.
+
+### The `e` tag
+Used in a text event contains a single event id.  ["e", "`hex-number`"]  
+
+ * No `e` tag: 
+This event is not a reply to, nor does it refer to, any other event.
+
+ * One `e` tag:  ["e",`id`]: 
+The id of the event to which this event is a reply.
+
+ * Two `e` tags:  ["e",`root-id`], ["e",`reply-id`]
+'root-id' is the `id` of the event at the root of the reply chain.  `reply-id` is the id of the article to which this event is a reply.  
+
+ * Many `e` tags: ["e",`root-id`]  ["e",`mention-id`], ..., ["e",`reply-id`]
+There may be any number of `mention-ids`.  These are the ids of events which may, or may not be in the reply chain.  
+They are citings from this event.  `root-id` and `reply-id` are as above.
+
+### The `p` tag
+Used in a text event contains a list of pubkeys used to record who is involved in a reply thread.
+
+When replying to a text event E with `p` tags P, the replying event's `p` tags should contain P as well as the pubkey of the of the event being replied to.  
+
+Example:  Given a text event authored by a1 with `p` tags [`p1`, `p2`, `p3`] then the `p` tags of the reply should be [`a1`, `p1`, `p2`, `p3`] 
+in no particular order.