diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 150d07f5..4144e9e5 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ ovsdbapp
 
 A library for creating OVSDB applications
 
-Please fill here a long description which must be at least 3 lines wrapped on
-80 cols, so that distribution package maintainers can use it in their packages.
-Note that this is a hard requirement.
+The ovdsbapp library is useful for creating applications that communicate
+via Open_vSwitch's OVSDB protocol (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7047). It
+wraps the Python 'ovs' and adds an event loop and friendly transactions.
 
 * Free software: Apache license
 * Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ovsdbapp
@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@ Note that this is a hard requirement.
 Features
 --------
 
-* TODO
+* An thread-based event loop for using ovs.db.Idl
+* Transaction support
+* Native OVSDB communication