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 ### What is Mini-NDN?
 
-Mini-NDN is a fork of Mini-CCNx that uses NFD and NLSR to emulate
-an NDN network and supports research in NDN development.
+Mini-NDN is a lightweight networking emulation tool that enables testing, experimentation, and
+research on the NDN platform. Mini-NDN is based on [Mini-CCNx](https://github.com/chesteve/mn-ccnx)
+which is a fork of [Mininet](https://github.com/mininet/mininet).
+Mini-NDN uses the [Named Data Networking Forwarding Daemon (NFD)](https://github.com/named-data/NFD)
+and the [Named Data Link State Routing Protocol (NLSR)](https://github.com/named-data/NLSR) to
+emulate an NDN network on a single system.
 
+Mini-NDN is open and free software licensed under the GPL 3.0 license. Mini-NDN is free to all
+users and developers. For more information about licensing details and limitations,
+please refer to [COPYING.md](COPYING.md).
 
-### Installation
-
-See `INSTALL` for installation instructions and details.
+Mini-NDN is developed by members of the NSF-sponsored NDN project team. For more details,
+please refer to [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md).
+Bug reports and feedback are highly appreciated and can be made through our
+[Redmine site](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn).
 
 ### Documentation
 
-[Mini-NDN Redmine](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn).
-
-### Credits
-
-The Mini-CCNx team:
-
-* Carlos Cabral
-* Christian Esteve Rothenberg
-
-The Mini-NDN team:
-
-* University of Memphis
- * Ashlesh Gawande
- * Vince Lehman
- * Lan Wang
-
-* University of Campinas
- * Caio de Moraes Elias
- * Carlos Cabral
- * Christian Esteve Rothenberg
-
-* University of Arizona
- * Beichuan Zhang
+* [Installation](INSTALL.md)
+* [Getting Started](docs/GETTING-STARTED.md)
+* [Mini-NDN Edit](docs/GUI.md)
+* [Running Experiments](docs/EXPERIMENTS.md)
+* [Mini-NDN Redmine](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn)