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title: "A decentralized packet network"
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-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