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 This [repository]({{page.projectpages}}) contains a
-[proposal](preserves.html) and various implementations of *Preserves*, a
+[definition](preserves.html) and various implementations of *Preserves*, a
 new data model, with associated serialization formats, in many ways
 comparable to JSON, XML, S-expressions, CBOR, ASN.1 BER, and so on.