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-Shuo Chen <chenatu2006@gmail.com>
-Alexander Afanasyev <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html>
-Junxiao Shi <https://www.cs.arizona.edu/~shijunxiao/>
-Hang Zhang <http://netlab.bit.edu.cn/z_hang>
-Weiqi Shi <swq11@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
+# repo-ng Authors
+
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to repo-ng in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official repo-ng repository](https://github.com/named-data/repo-ng).
+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.
+
+* Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* Shuo Chen <https://github.com/chenatu>
+* Nicholas Gordon <https://github.com/gorgonical>
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* Md Ashiqur Rahman <https://ashiqrahman.com>
+* Wentao Shang <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~wentao>
+* Junxiao Shi <https://cs.arizona.edu/~shijunxiao>
+* Weiqi Shi <swq11@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
+* Weijia Yuan <https://github.com/ikyuu>
+* Hang Zhang <http://netlab.bit.edu.cn/z_hang>