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 # Non-Goals
 * Manifest generation speed
+    * likely involves IPFS chunking, bittorrent chunking, and several different cryptographic hash functions over the entirety of each and every file
 * Small manifest file size (within reason)
+    * 10MiB files are "small" these days, given modern storage/bandwidth
+    * 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?