Once v1.0-beta.1 of the protocol specification document (and its complementary API documentation) is released, work should be started to update the polyproto Rust crate to that version of the specification. The base work is already done and we have a solid foundation - things just need to be updated.

For that, I am going to go through each chapter of the protocol definition again and make sure that all aspects I can think of are covered by the crate.

Chapters

• 1. Terminology used in this document
• 2. Trust model
• 3. APIs and underlying communication protocols
• 3.1 .well-known
• 3.2 WebSocket Protocol
• 3.3 Events over REST
• 3.4 HTTP
• 3.5 Internet Protocol (IP)
• 3.6 Compression
• 4. Federated identity
• 4.1 Authentication
• 4.2 Challenge strings
• 4.3 Protection against misuse by malicious home servers
• 5. Federation IDs (FIDs)
• 6. Cryptography and ID-Certs
• 6.1 Home server signed certificates for public client identity keys (ID-Cert)
• 6.2 Actor identity keys and message signing
• 6.3 Private key loss prevention and private key recovery
• 6.4 Caching of ID-Certs
• 6.5 Cryptographic specifications
• 6.6 Best practices
• 7. Migrations
• 7.1 Identity migration
• 7.2 Re-signing messages
• 7.3 Moving data
• 7.4 Challenges and trust
• 8. Protocol extensions (P2 extensions)
• 8.1 Extension design
• 8.2 Namespaces
• 8.3 Officially endorsed extensions
• 8.4 Versioning and yanking
• 8.5 Dependencies
• 8.6 Routes
• 9. Services
• 9.1 Discoverability