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This document is a Technical Specification containing technical details concerning the implementation of the STREAMS interface for OpenSS7. It contains recommendations on software architecture as well as platform and system applicability of the OpenSS7 STREAMS Interface. 

The purpose of this document is to provide technical documentation of the OpenSS7 STREAMS Interface. This document is intended to be included with the strss7 software package released for OpenSS7. It is intended to assist software developers, maintainers and users of the OpenSS7 STREAMS Interface with understanding the software achitecture and technical interfaces which are made available in the software package. 

It is the intent of this document that it act as the primary source of information concerning the OpenSS7 STREAMS Interface. 

The audience for this document is software developers, maintainers and users and integrators of the OpenSS7 STREAMS Interface. 

Take care that you are working with a current version of this document: you will not be notified of updates. To ensure that your are working with a current version, contact the Author,¹ or check the OpenSS7 web site² for a current version. 

A printed version of this document is an uncontrolled version. 

Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this document may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not have taken the same level of care in the production of this document, which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working professionally. 

All reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this document is correct and complete; however, neither the Author nor OpenSS7 extends any warranty of fitness for any purpose whatsoever regarding the information contained herein, and shall not be held responsible for any damages whatsoever (whether indirect or special) arising from the use of this document or the information contained herein.