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-Note: the `iroh-car` crate, which has not (yet) been published to crates.io,
-has been vendored out of the `iroh` project in to a sub-module of this crate.
-This is basically a verbatim copy, and the original copyright and license
-applies to that code.
+`adenosine-pds`: small-world atproto.com Personal Data Server
+=============================================================
+
+This is a simple, enthusiast-grade AT Protocol
+([atproto.com](https://atproto.com)) personal data server ("PDS")
+implementation. It targets "small-world" uses cases of the protocol, for
+example personal or organizational self-hosting.
+
+There is a [manpage](../extra/adenosine-pds.1.md) with usage and configuration
+details.
+
+Features:
+
+- [x] com.atproto Lexicon implementation (not validated)
+- [x] crude repo CAR file export (full history)
+- [x] partial app.bsky Lexicon implementation (posts, follows)
+- [x] crude internal did:plc generation
+- [x] crude repo storage and manipulation
+- [x] self-hosted did:web configuration
+- [x] small-world registration and did:plc hosting configuration
+- [ ] server-to-server interaction, at all (repo sync, etc)
+- [ ] remote DID resolution (did:plc, did:web, etc)
+- [ ] Lexicon schema validation of records/requests
+- [ ] repo CAR file import: validation and app db update
+- [ ] did:plc server interaction and chain validation
+- [ ] complete app.bsky Lexicon implementation (notifications, likes, actors, etc)
+
+Two main deployment configurations are supported:
+
+- "fixed did:web accounts": accounts can only be registered at the CLI, and
+  did:web is used instead of did:plc. A did:web DID document is served from
+  `/.well-known/did.json` for matching domains, and a profile/feed is served
+  from the homepage when domain matches
+- "domain wildcard registration": accounts can be registered via XRPC, limited
+  to handles under a specific hosting domain, and possibly requiring a secret
+  invite code. did:plc identifiers are generated locally. web views are served
+  from any domain, with registered handle domains being a profile/feed view
+
+## Quickstart
+
+TODO
+
+- generate a PDS-wide secret key, and store as env configuration variable
+- set other config variables (see `--help` or manpage)
+
+## Deployment
+
+TODO: rewrite this
+
+- generate a PDS-wide secret key, and store as env configuration variable
+- set other config variables (see `--help` or manpage)
+- set up reverse proxy with SSL (eg, caddy or nginx or haproxy)
+- run command from an appropriate local working directory (for databases)
+- maybe set up a systemd unit file
+- `adenosine-pds serve -vv`
+
+
+## Implementation Details
+
+This is a Rust programming language project.
+
+Currently uses `rouille` as a (blocking) web framework; `rusqlite` for
+(blocking) direct sqlite database interaction; `ipfs-sqlite-block-store` as a
+(blocking) IPLD block store.
+
+A bunch of cleanup and refactoring would be useful:
+
+- cleaner ownership and referencing (reduce wasteful allocations)
+- error handling (reduce `unwrap()` hacks)
+- avoid mutex poisoning
+- switch to async/await concurrency (replace or wrap blocking datastores) (eg,
+  `axum`, `sqlx`, `iroh` blockstore)
+
+
+### Vendored Code
+
+The `iroh-car` crate, which has not (yet) been published to crates.io, has been
+vendored out of the `iroh` project in to a sub-module of this crate.  This is
+basically a verbatim copy, and the original copyright and license applies to
+that code.
+
+`ucan` support for the `p256` key type is implemented in this crate. Hoping to
+get this upstreamed.
+
+
+## Development and Contributions
+
+Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV) is currently 1.61, using 2021 Rust
+Edition.
+
+Contributions, conversations, bug reports, and handwriten postcards are all
+welcome. This is a low-effort hobby project so high-touch support, feature
+requests, growth strategies, etc, probably will not be fielded.
+
+The source code license is AGPLv3. Please acknowledge this in any initial
+contributions, and also indicate whether and how you would like to be
+acknowledged as a contributor (eg, a name and optionally a URL).