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+# Roadmap
+
+The Trust project consists of a number of moving parts of which Vetinari is one. Vetinari is the front line metadata service
+that clients interact with. It manages TUF metadata and interacts with a pluggable signing service to issue new TUF timestamp
+files.
+
+The Rufus repository is provided as our reference implementation of a signing service. It supports HSMs along with Ed25519
+software signing.
+
+
+## Trust Goals
+
+- Provide a trust service that enables users to validate the integrity and provenance of content they download.
+- Provide trust management such that a user can lock down the scope of their trust to individual signers if
+  they so desire.
+- Provide guarantees that servers used to store and distribute content have very limited scope and opportunity to tamper with the data.
+- Provide a trust mechanism that can support insecure plain HTTP mirrors while still providing security to end consumers