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+## Machi Documentation Overview
+
+For a Web-browsable version of a snapshot of the source doc "EDoc"
+Erlang documentation, please use this link:
+[Machi EDoc snapshot](https://basho.github.io/machi/edoc/).
+
+## Documents in this directory
+
+* __chain-self-management-sketch.org__ is an introduction to the
+self-management algorithm proposed for Machi.  This algorithm is
+(hoped to be) sufficient for managing the Chain Replication state of a
+Machi cluster.