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STAR-lite for atproto space archives, tentative format pitch (and... is it time to just call it STAR?)

@dholms.at @bnewbold.net WIP pass at generic meta (and more generic over all with spaces as an application): tangled.org/microcosm.bl...

nice this looks like basically exactly what i had in mind one last question: are `val` in the data section always dag-cbor (and can therefore be decoded while deserializing the STAR)? or is it arbitrary bytes (in each case a second pass is requierd per-value)?

yeah this looks nice. nit-picky, but I think of magic bytes as being 4x bytes, which is also a bit more word-aligned. could be just another 0x00 for now. explicitly possible to have zero key/value pairs, right? wonder if the key sort ordering should be more use-case specified...

eg the blobs example I gave they would end up with 'blob/...' at the end, which would be out of overall sort order. for multi-space-repo export, could be nested, with keys being space-ref, and the value being a STAR file. would expect readers to have configurable "max block size"

oh, I see the size limits are in the text. i'd probably make that more flexible? eg, a default or recommendation, but feels like it should be able to adapt if atproto norms change