From 357820357ca990f2a1db0773d041438bc1f9885b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun@twistedmatrix.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 15:04:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] front matter

---
 docs/proposed/http-storage-node-protocol.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/proposed/http-storage-node-protocol.rst b/docs/proposed/http-storage-node-protocol.rst
index f8f242183..569a2a0b4 100644
--- a/docs/proposed/http-storage-node-protocol.rst
+++ b/docs/proposed/http-storage-node-protocol.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ The target audience for this document is Tahoe-LAFS developers.
 After reading this document,
 one should expect to understand how Tahoe-LAFS clients interact over the network with Tahoe-LAFS storage nodes.
 
+The primary goal of the introduction of this protocol is to simplify the task of implementing a Tahoe-LAFS storage server.
+Specifically, it should be possible to implement a Tahoe-LAFS storage server without a Foolscap implementation
+(substituting an HTTP server implementation).
+The Tahoe-LAFS client will also need to change but it is not expected that it will be noticably simplified by this change.
+
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