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-NDNS authors
-============
+# NDNS Authors
 
-## The primary authors are (and/or have been):
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to NDNS in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official NDNS repository](https://github.com/named-data/ndns).
+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.
 
-* Xiaoke Jiang          <http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/~shock/>
-* Alexander Afanasyev   <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html>
-* Yumin Xia             <me@yumin-xia.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:
-
-* Eric Newberry         <http://ericnewberry.com/>
-* Jiewen Tan            <alanwake@ucla.edu>
-* Davide Pesavento      <https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidepesavento>
+* Alexander Afanasyev <http://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* Xiaoke Jiang <http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/~shock>
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* Junxiao Shi <https://cs.arizona.edu/~shijunxiao>
+* Jiewen Tan <https://github.com/alanwaketan>
+* Yumin Xia <https://github.com/Stumble>