| Alexander Afanasyev | a141700 | 2014-01-21 20:29:55 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | NFD - Named Data Networking Forwarding Daemon |
| Beichuan Zhang | 55b8ed4 | 2014-04-26 22:25:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | ============================================= |
| Alexander Afanasyev | a141700 | 2014-01-21 20:29:55 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | |
| Steve DiBenedetto | 62a9394 | 2014-08-24 17:13:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | For complete documentation, including step-by-step installation instructions and |
| 5 | tutorials, please visit the [NFD homepage](http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/). |
| Alexander Afanasyev | 0c3e93d | 2014-05-12 15:49:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | |
| 7 | ## Overview |
| 8 | |
| Beichuan Zhang | 55b8ed4 | 2014-04-26 22:25:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | NFD is a network forwarder that implements and evolves together with the Named Data |
| 10 | Networking (NDN) [protocol](http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-tlv/). After the initial |
| 11 | release, NFD will become a core component of the |
| 12 | [NDN Platform](http://named-data.net/codebase/platform/) and will follow the same release |
| 13 | cycle. |
| Alexander Afanasyev | a141700 | 2014-01-21 20:29:55 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
| Beichuan Zhang | 55b8ed4 | 2014-04-26 22:25:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | NFD is an open and free software package licensed under GPL 3.0 license and is the |
| 16 | centerpiece of our committement to making NDN's core technology open and free to all |
| 17 | Internet users and developers. For more information about the licensing details and |
| 18 | limitation, refer to |
| 19 | [`COPYING.md`](https://github.com/named-data/NFD/blob/master/COPYING.md). |
| Steve DiBenedetto | 1a3c673 | 2014-03-13 06:44:05 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| Beichuan Zhang | 55b8ed4 | 2014-04-26 22:25:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | NFD is developed by a community effort. Although the first release was mostly done by the |
| 22 | members of [NSF-sponsored NDN project team](http://named-data.net/project/participants/), |
| 23 | it already contains significant contributions from people outside the project team (for |
| Steve DiBenedetto | 62a9394 | 2014-08-24 17:13:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | more details, refer to |
| 25 | [`AUTHORS.md`](https://github.com/named-data/NFD/blob/master/AUTHORS.md)). We strongly |
| 26 | encourage participation from all interested parties, since broader community support is |
| 27 | key for NDN to succeed as a new Internet architecture. Bug reports and feedback are |
| 28 | highly appreciated and can be made through |
| Alexander Afanasyev | 284257b | 2014-04-11 14:16:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | [Redmine site](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd) and the |
| 30 | [ndn-interest mailing list](http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/ndn-interest). |
| Steve DiBenedetto | 1a3c673 | 2014-03-13 06:44:05 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | |
| Beichuan Zhang | 55b8ed4 | 2014-04-26 22:25:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | The main design goal of NFD is to support diverse experimentation of NDN technology. The |
| 33 | design emphasizes *modularity* and *extensibility* to allow easy experiments with new |
| 34 | protocol features, algorithms, new applications. We have not fully optimized the code for |
| 35 | performance. The intention is that performance optimizations are one type of experiments |
| 36 | that developers can conduct by trying out different data structures and different |
| 37 | algorithms; over time, better implementations may emerge within the same design framework. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | NFD will keep evolving in three aspects: improvement of the modularity framework, keeping |
| 40 | up with the NDN protocol spec, and addition of other new features. We hope to keep the |
| Steve DiBenedetto | 62a9394 | 2014-08-24 17:13:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | modular framework stable and lean, allowing researchers to implement and experiment with |
| 42 | various features, some of which may eventually work into the protocol spec. |