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-# noms
+# Noms
+
+Noms is a content-addressable, immutable, peer-to-peer, multi-application datastore for structured application data.
+
+This repository will contain the reference implementation of the noms protocol, and will eventually be open sourced. 
+
+This includes:
+
+* Go wrappers for all the core Nom types
+* Support for generating Go types from Nom schema definitions
+* Chunking and dechunking
+* Serialization and deserialization
+* Chunkstore interface as well as several sample implementations
+* Search support
+* Sample applications