Ouroboros

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Summary

Ouroboros is a prototype distributed system for packetized network communications. It is a redesign ab initio of the current packet networking model – from the programming API almost to the wire. If we had to describe Ouroboros in a single sentence, it would be

Ouroboros is a micro-service architecture applied to the network itself

While the prototype is not directly compatible with TCP/IP or POSIX sockets, it has interfaces and tools to run over Ethernet or UDP, or to create IP/Ethernet tunnels over Ouroboros by exposing tap or tun devices.

From an application perspective, an Ouroboros network is a “black box” with a simple interface. Either Ouroboros will provides a flow, a bidirectional channel that delivers data within some requested operational parameters such as delay and bandwidth and reliability and security; or it provides a broadcast channel to a set of joined programs.

From an administrative perspective, an Ouroboros network is a bunch of daemons that can be thought of as software routers (unicast) or software hubs (broadcast) that can be connected to each other; again through a simple API.