This is a component that I wanted to extract from `netmod-tcp`,
in the qaul.net tree. I was considering just moving this lib to the
utils tree in the qaul.net repo, but I decided that I needed this
library in too many other programs, and that it really didn't have
much to do with qaul.net so it's living here now.
Considering that I want to also convey stability in the API, I'll
immediately bump it to 1.0.0 as well.
