Refactor for IO independent protocol implementation #147

Job	Run time
Build the documentation	35s
Check type hints (3.9)	25s
Check type hints (3.10)	25s
Check type hints (3.11)	28s
Check type hints (3.12)	22s
Check versioning / Check versioning for consistency	12s
Linting (3.10) / Linting	34s
Linting (3.12) / Linting	25s
Linting (3.11) / Linting	21s
Linting (3.9) / Linting	21s
Run tests (3.10) / Run all tests	33s
Run tests (3.11) / Run all tests	30s
Run tests (3.9) / Run all tests	28s
Run tests (3.12) / Run all tests	27s
Upload coverage to codecov.io	37s
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