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-NAC Authors
-===========
+# NAC Authors
-## The primary authors are (and/or have been):
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to NAC in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official NAC repository](https://github.com/named-data/name-based-access-control).
+If you would like to become a contributor to the official repository, please follow the recommendations in https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.
-* Alex Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev/>
-* Zhiyi Zhang <dreamerbarrychang@gmail.com>
-* Yingdi Yu <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi/>
-* Prashanth Swaminathan <prashanthsw@gmail.com>
-
-## All project authors and contributors
-
-The following is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS,
-people who have reported bugs, submitted patches, and implemented new features
-in the library:
+* ***(Maintainer)*** Alexander Afanaysev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* Ashlesh Gawande <https://www.linkedin.com/in/agawande>
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* Prashanth Swaminathan
+* Yingdi Yu <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi>
+* Zhiyi Zhang <https://zhiyi-zhang.com>