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+# ndn-traffic-generator Authors
+
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to ndn-traffic-generator in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official ndn-traffic-generator repository](https://github.com/named-data/ndn-traffic-generator).
+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.
+
+* Jerald Paul Abraham <https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~jeraldabraham>
+* Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* Jing Guan <http://jennica.space>
+* Spencer Lee <https://www.linkedin.com/in/spenlee>
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* Junxiao Shi <https://cs.arizona.edu/~shijunxiao>