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<title>OSSP xds</title>
-<h1>...</h1>
+<h1>Extensible Data Serialization</h1>
<h2>Abstract</h2>
+The purpose of OSSP xds is to encode data in a way that allows this
+data to be exchanged between different computer systems. Assume you
+would want to transfer the value 0x1234 from host A to host B. Then you
+would encode it using B<OSSP xds>, transfer the encoded data over the
+network, and decode the value again at the other end. Every program that
+follows this process will read the correct value no matter what native
+representation is uses internally.
+
+<p>
+OSSP xds consists of three components: The generic encoding and decoding
+framework, a set of engines to encode and decode values in a certain format,
+and a run-time context, which is used to manage buffers, registered engines,
+etc.
+
<h2>Authors</h2>
-<pkg_author name="Ralf S. Engelschall" mail="rse@engelschall.com">
+<pkg_author name="Peter Simons" mail="simons@computer.org">
<h2>Status</h2>
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