<p>The long-term aim of the CIC network is to be agnostic of consensus engines. However, since we have to start <em>somewhere</em>, the current state of development only deals with Smart Contracts on the (Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
<p>The CICRegistry contract defines the entry-point to the entire CIC network. All other CIC network resources can be discovered through this contract.
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<p>Its implementation is contained in the <samp>cic-registry</samp> repository. Details about it are documented further in that section.
<p>All other Smart Contracts in the network other than CICRegistry are essentially optional, and each applies <em>at least one</em> the interfaces defined in the <code>cic-contracts</code> repository.
<p>A key-value store, which resolves arbitrary 32-byte pointers to Ethereum addresses. Typically, this is used to resolve an address from a well-known identifier, either as a UTF-8 value or a 256-bit hash.
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<p>It also provides numerical index access to all registered values in order of insertion.
<p>A subset of the <code>Registry</code> interface, which defines only the non-transactional methods of the contract. The <code>Registry Client</code> interface is implemented by the <code>CICRegistry</code>contract.
<p>Stores one or more 32-byte entries as a description of an Ethereum address, <em>signed</em> by another Ethereum address.
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<p>This can be used to <em>describe</em> network resources, be it tokens, contracts or user accounts. Examples of uses are KYC documentation proofs for users, token metadata used for display, or fraud alerts.
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<p>Entries are stored by the transacting address that adds address/description pairs. In other words, any address may have different "opinions" registered about it, depending on which signing address it is queried in the context of. This, in turn, allows the quering entity to compile its own "opinion" of an address by combining data from signatures it trusts.
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<p>Entries typically are text strings or content hashes.
