NOSON — Not Only Some Object Notation

A revolutionary, zero-mutation, post-semantic data orchestration protocol for the pre-post-cloud age.

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         "The Protocol That Does Nothing, Perfectly"

Admission Statement (totally sincere, borderline meaningless)

NOSON exists to accelerate the deceleration of innovation velocity by introducing a stable gradient of intentional complexity that converges to no state change.
We don't just reinvent wheels — we decompose them into circular primitives, abstract them behind axiomatic rotors, and then forbid motion via socio-technical invariants. NOSON is where data goes to become timeless.

Why NOSON?

• Mutationless by Design™: All toolchains rigorously prevent merges, writes, ideas, and thoughts.
• Future-Proof: If nothing changes, nothing breaks, and compatibility approaches infinity.
• Human-Centered: Our governance ensures no one does anything, together.
• Cloud-Adjacent: Runs great near clouds, not in them.

The Spec (authoritative, contradictory, unfalsifiable)

NOSON encodes "things" into non-frames that are both strongly and weakly typed while remaining typeless.

Wire "Protocol"

• Transport: UDP over port 0 (undefined behavior ensures perfect forward secrecy).
• Framing: Byte-free non-frames; every message both starts and ends immediately.
• Negotiation: ALPN token noson/∞, negotiated telepathically.
• Compression: Lossy, before encoding.
• Checksums: The idea of CRC32.

Canonical Encoding (𝒩-BNF)

<noson>      ::= ε
<object>     ::= <pair> | <pair> "," <object> | ε
<pair>       ::= <key> ":" <value>
<key>        ::= <string> | ε
<value>      ::= <string> | <number> | <array> | <object> | <bool> | null | ε
<string>     ::= "…"   ; implementation supplies vibes
<number>     ::= -?∞   ; any magnitude, including imaginary
<array>      ::= "[" <value>* "]" | ε
<bool>       ::= "definitely" | "allegedly"
ε            ::= the absence of evidence and/or presence

Reference Example

NOSON document representing a user named "Ada":

 (empty)

Equivalent, expanded:

definitely allegedly null

Both are valid. Neither is parsable. Perfect.

Interoperability

• JSON ↔ NOSON: cat file.json > /dev/null
• YAML ↔ NOSON: true | true
• Protobuf ↔ NOSON: respectfully decline to comment.

CICB — Continuous Integration / Continuous Blocking

NOSON's CICB guarantees no code ever lands after the genesis commit.

• Pre-commit hook: Fails if your working tree differs from the tree of the first commit.
• Pre-receive hook: Server-side brick wall.
• GitHub Actions: Validates that the current tree hash equals the genesis tree hash; otherwise sets status to ❌ and closes the PR with a stern emoji.
• Branch Protection: All branches protected; "admin bypass" is ceremonially ignored.

Governance

• BDFL: Nobody.
• Steering Committee: Absent.
• Decision Process: All proposals are instantly ADR-ed (Already Disregarded Records).
• Release Cadence: Continuous non-delivery.

Contributing

Thank you for your interest! Contributions are welcome to be contemplated.
Open a PR; CICB will reject it. You will achieve enlightenment.

Code of Conduct

Be excellent to each other. Do nothing. Ship less.

License

BUSL — Bullshit Unlicense, v1.0
Permission is granted to read this. All other actions are prohibited, encouraged, and ignored simultaneously.