Since the release of `pipes-network`, I've been encouraged to move the non-pipes-related TCP utilities to their own package, so I've done that, and `network-simple` is the result. This package builds on top of the great `network` package available in The Haskell Platform, and aims to simplify the usage of some common networking patterns, such as binding a TCP socket to a port and immediately start listening and accepting incoming connections to it, handling each connection in a different thread. Managing the lifetime of the obtained socket resources is also automated. Currently, only utilities for dealing with TCP connections are available, but I look forward to add support for UDP and Unix Domain Sockets, as well as TLS. Hackage hasn't rendered the documentation yet, so I uploaded the documentation here: http://monoid.k0001.org/haskell/network-simple/doc/index.html The code can be found at: https://github.com/k0001/network-simple I've only tried this package on the current Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0 on Linux, let me know if something does not work in a different environment. By the way, `pipes-network-0.1.1.0` now depends on this package. Regards, Renzo Carbonara.