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 of the Tor protocol.  Underdocumented, too big, needs
 refactoring.
 
+## Intended architecture
+
+I'm hoping to have small, optional, separable pieces here.  For everything
+I'm writing, I'm hoping it can go behind a configuration flag.
+
+I'm also hoping to focus on everything that _isn't_ the network first.  I'd
+like as little code as possible to actually read and write to the network,
+and as much code as possible to pretend that the network doesn't exist.  I
+hope this will make everything easier to test.
 
 ## Licence
 
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-
-be agile in use of other crates, but kinda flexible in main coding.
-
-guess those mean the same.
-
-instead, "make sure our dependencies on particular implementations of things
-are not hard to replace", and "assume we will refactor or rewrite everything
-we do."
-
-
-==========
-
-what architecture am I aiming for?  I'm hoping for a layer that is
-no-network, that doesn't even have a "network" as a thing in it.  That means
-it's going to have to have lots of encoding/decoding stuff, and maybe the
-crypto, and possibly it can handle a little state, but big state will be hard
-
-Hm.  This could actually help though.  There are circuits and streams and
-channels and they none of them need to actually "connect" until a different
-layer.  That would kinda rock, even.
-
-
-