The primary objective of the Tau project is to create a standard platform for development and deployment of new protocol services , one designed to incorporate what has been learned about protocol architecture in the past 20 years. An explicit metaheader protocol , which provides application addressing and an indication of the protocol processing applied to the message. The metaheader is coded to allow efficient parsing and processing of Tau data units by the receiver. An extensible set of protocol functions , including connection management, congestion avoidance and control, and security functions. The official Tau specification is in flux, and probably will be for a while, but some parts are stable.
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The Tau project is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number ANI-9996069.