[Nfd-dev] new draft for public announcement

[Davide Pesavento]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Christos Papadopoulos
<christos at cs.colostate.edu> wrote:
> I shortened it a bit.
>
> Christos.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear all,
>
> We are pleased to announce the initial public release (version 0.2.0) of the

Someone will be wondering why the "initial public release" is version
0.2 and not 0.1. Is it worth explaining why in a footnote?

> NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD).  NFD is a network forwarder that implements the
> Named Data Networking (NDN) protocol.  More details about NFD, release
> notes, HOWTOs, a FAQ and other useful resources are available at NFD's
> official webpage (http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/0.2.0/).
>
> Also available is the NFD developer's guide
> (http://named-data.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/NFD-developer-guide.pdf),
> which provides a detailed description of the implementation internals.
>
> An important goal of NFD is to support experimentation with the NDN
> architecture. Thus, the current release emphasizes **modularity** and
> **extensibility** over performance to allow easy experimentation with new
> protocol features, algorithms, data structures and applications. We invite
> researchers to experiment with the existing code and submit enhancements
> both in terms of performance and new architecture features.
>
> This release is part of the new NDN Platform version 0.3
> (http://named-data.net/releases/platform-0.3), which includes the following
> components:
>
> - The NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD), version 0.2.0
>     http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/0.2.0/
>
> - The ndn-cxx library, version 0.2.0
>     http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-cxx/0.2.0/
>
>     + The NDN C++ library with eXperimental eXtensions (CXX)
>     + The ndnsec security tools to manage security identities and
> certificates
>
> - The NDN Common Client libraries suite (NDN-CCL), version 0.3
>     http://named-data.net/releases/CCL-0.3
>
>     + The NDN-CPP C++ library
>     + The PyNDN2 Python library
>     + The NDN-JS JavaScript library
>     + (A Java library is coming soon)
>
> - The Named Data Link State Routing Protocol (NLSR) version 0.1.0
>     http://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/0.1.0/
>
> - The next generation of NDN repository (repo-ng)
>     http://github.com/named-data/repo-ng

No version number for repo-ng?

>
> - A Ping Application For NDN (ndn-tlv-ping) version 0.2.0
>     http://github.com/named-data/ndn-tlv-ping
>
> - A Traffic Generator For NDN (ndn-traffic-generator) version 0.2.0
>     http://github.com/named-data/ndn-traffic-generator
>
> ***
> More detailed information aboutthe  NFD release is available on the NDN

Missing space in "aboutthe".

> website
>     http://named-data.net/releases/NFD-0.2.0
> ***
>
> The NFD Team.
>

The rest looks very good to me.

Thanks,
Davide