r its used for references (urls, etc) and g for geohash (location), its true that nip10 originally just try to create conventions around the replies, but since the r and g tags add the context for a note can be interesting to consider add a convention for kind1 that contains it. The only client that do something around that its amethyst for example that shows g tags if an event contains it
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Interesting, does not seem as urgent as "a" but maybe add this to the PR? 
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Update NIP-10 including definitions for "a" tags by franzaps · Pull Request #809 · nostr-protocol/nips
Clients will use NIP-10 as reference to implement replies and will only look for e tags, ignoring a tags for both displaying content and properly t...
Yes, definitely a tags are more accurate for the actual approach of the nip and have loads of sense. But yea, it might be interesting to add these others too.