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diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md index ac725db..9ac7681 100644 --- a/content/_index.md +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -2,23 +2,28 @@ title: "A decentralized packet network" --- -Ouroboros is a peer-to-peer transport network that follows a UNIX -design philosphy, with minimal packet headers. The aim is to provide a -secure and private networking experience. Ouroboros provides its own -name resolution, reliability mechanisms, routing algorithms, and -congestion control. It can be overlayed on top of UDP and Ethernet, -and IP applications can be tunneled over Ouroboros. +Ouroboros is a peer-to-peer transport network built on a new recursive +network paradigm following a UNIX design philosphy. The aim is to +provide a secure and private networking experience and simplify +writing distributed software and networking libraries. -Ouroboros is [free -software](https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software), written in -C for and its application library provides a simple, unified API for -synchronous and asynchronous Inter-Process Communication (IPC) and -networking. +Ouroboros is compatible with TCP/IP and can be overlayed over UDP and +Ethernet. IP applications can be tunneled over Ouroboros. Ouroboros +provides its own name resolution, reliability mechanisms, routing +algorithms, and (soon) congestion control. + +Ouroboros was originally started at [imec](www.imec-int.com) under its +Future Internet research, and is [free +software](https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software). It is +written in C for and its application library provides a simple, +unified API for synchronous and asynchronous Inter-Process +Communication (IPC) and networking. The best places to start exploring Ouroboros is this introduction presented at [FOSDEM 2018](https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/ipc/), and the [PhD -dissertation](https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8615152) of Sander Vrijders, especially chapters 5-6. +dissertation](https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8615152) of Sander +Vrijders, especially chapters 5-6. This new website is currently under construction and undergoing frequent updates. The documentation is still sparse, please don't |