[Nfd-dev] new draft for public announcement

[Alex Afanasyev]

Thanks Christos and Davide!

I still want to include link to the release html page a first thing in the email.  Otherwise people would have to read through the email to get it (and since they may get tired and never get to more detailed page :-))

On Aug 24, 2014, at 8:20 AM, Davide Pesavento <davide.pesavento at lip6.fr> wrote:

> 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?

I think if people would check release notes on NFD homepage, then they would get the idea.  We could add extra bullet about this, but I don't think we need extra explanation.

> 
>> 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
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