add open design questions to README

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@ -54,9 +54,16 @@ The manifest file would do several important things:
* metadata size should not be used as an excuse to sacrifice utility (such as providing checksums over each chunk of a large file)
# Open Questions
* Should the manifest file include checksums of individual file chunks, or just for the whole assembled file?
* If so, should the chunksize be fixed or dynamic?
* Should the manifest signature format be GnuPG signatures, or those from
OpenBSD's signify (of which there is a good [golang
implementation](https://github.com/frankbraun/gosignify)?
* Should the on-disk serialization format be proto3 or json?
# Tool Examples
* `mfer gen` / `mfer gen .`