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 This is an implementation in Go of the [CID spec](https://github.com/ipld/cid).
 It is used in `go-ipfs` and related packages to refer to a typed hunk of data.
 
+## Lead Maintainer
+
+[Eric Myhre](https://github.com/warpfork)
 
 ## Table of Contents