<s>
The	O
Transport	B-Protocol
Driver	I-Protocol
Interface	I-Protocol
or	O
TDI	O
is	O
the	O
protocol	O
understood	O
by	O
the	O
upper	O
edge	O
of	O
the	O
Transport	B-Architecture
layer	I-Architecture
of	O
the	O
Microsoft	O
Windows	O
kernel	B-Operating_System
network	O
stack	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Transport	O
Providers	O
are	O
implementations	O
of	O
network	O
protocols	O
such	O
as	O
TCP/IP	B-Protocol
,	O
NetBIOS	B-Protocol
,	O
and	O
AppleTalk	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
user-mode	O
binaries	O
are	O
created	O
by	O
compiling	B-Language
and	O
linking	O
,	O
an	O
entity	O
called	O
a	O
TDI	O
client	O
is	O
linked	O
into	O
the	O
binary	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
TDI	O
clients	O
are	O
provided	O
with	O
the	O
compiler	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
purpose	O
of	O
the	O
Transport	B-Protocol
Driver	I-Protocol
Interface	I-Protocol
is	O
to	O
provide	O
an	O
abstraction	O
layer	O
,	O
permitting	O
simplification	O
of	O
the	O
TDI	O
clients	O
.	O
</s>
