From the updated README:
Alcuin implements a subset of the Pest spec, which can be found here: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/pest/pest_draft.html Although it is a work in progress and much is yet to be completed, Alcuin *should* be able to interact with another Pest client successfully. Notably missing: - Pest specific client commands - Pest specific warning/informational output for incoming/outgoing messages - GetData message support - Key Offer message support - Key Slice message support Under the hood there is a dynamic AT and WOT, but there is no way to update them via the client. For the moment the client must still be configured via the config.py file, although this is now passed in via the --address-table-path command line option. For now, the config file is really a combination WOT/AT.
I am unable to provide a genesis using vdiff at this time because I can't get vdiff to exclude certain ephemeral files and directories.