External Links and References
NDN Project
- named-data.net – official NDN project site
- NDN Publications – research papers, technical reports, and presentations
- NDN Testbed Status – live status of the global NDN testbed
Specifications
Note: RFC 8569 and RFC 8609 are CCNx specifications (Content-Centric Networking, a related but distinct architecture). They are not NDN specifications. NDN specs are published by the named-data.net project.
- NDN Packet Format v0.3 – canonical TLV encoding for Interest, Data, and LpPacket; type assignments
- NDN Architecture (NDN-0001) – architecture vision and research roadmap; motivates the design but does not specify forwarding behavior
- NDNLPv2 Link Protocol – fragmentation, reliability, congestion marking
- NDN Certificate Format v2 – certificate naming convention, content format, validity period
- NDNCERT 0.3 – automated certificate issuance protocol
Reference Implementations
- NFD (NDN Forwarding Daemon) – the reference C++ forwarder
- NFD Developer Guide – architecture and internals of NFD
- ndn-cxx – C++ client library for NDN (used by NFD and NDN applications)
- ndn-cxx Documentation – API reference and tutorials
- ndnd – Go implementation of an NDN forwarder
- python-ndn – Python NDN client library
NDN Community
- named-data Mailing List – ndn-interest mailing list for technical discussion
- NDN GitHub Organization – source code for all official NDN software
- NDN Frequently Asked Questions
Related Research
- NDN Technical Memos – design rationale and protocol analysis
- ICN Research Group (ICNRG) – IRTF research group on Information-Centric Networking (parent research area of NDN)
- RFC 7927: Information-Centric Networking Research Challenges – overview of ICN challenges and open problems