NAOMS · building block
Import & packs
Bring data in from services like Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud, and move it in tamper-proof packs.
Import is a set of adapters that pull outside data onto a device: adapter-cloud covers Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud, and separate packages exist for calendar (adapter-calendar), email (adapter-email), local files (adapter-local) and search (adapter-search). A pack is the matching export format: a content-addressed, signed collection of graph nodes or chain events checked against a Merkle root, built on the Aqua Protocol, so a recipient can verify nothing inside was altered without contacting anyone.
What a person notices
- Moving years of files over from a cloud drive doesn’t mean re-uploading everything by hand.
- Sharing a memory, a backup, or a whole feature with someone else arrives as one file that proves where it came from, not a folder of loose pieces they have to trust blindly.
- Calendar events, email and local files can be brought in the same way, not just cloud storage.
What you get as a developer
Import brings outside data in; packs are how anything, data, a memory, a feature, moves back out verifiably.
- Real adapters exist for Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud, plus separate adapters for calendar, email, local files and search, so importing isn’t one generic connector that half-works for everything.
- A pack is a content-addressed, signed collection of graph nodes or chain events, checked against a Merkle root, so a recipient can verify nothing inside was altered without contacting anyone.
- The same pack format carries every kind of thing that leaves a device: a backup, a shared memory, a hive snapshot, a file, even a model. One format and one verification path, whatever is inside.
- Packs move over signed friendship or hive channels with their own sharing bookkeeping, so a pack a person receives is tied to who actually sent it, not an anonymous download link.
- The pack format is built on Aqua Protocol, in partnership with inblockio, so the same tamper-proof exchange format works outside NAOMS too.