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# NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD) 

 **NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD)** is a new NDN forwarder under development. 
 Its first release is scheduled for March 2014. 

 NFD conforms to these **network protocols**: 

 * [CCNx protocol](http://www.ccnx.org/releases/ccnx-0.7.2/doc/technical/CCNxProtocol.html) 
 * [NDN-TLV packet format](http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-tlv/) 
 * *NDNLP-TLV* <small>(to be defined)</small> for Ethernet communication 
 * *NFD local control header* <small>(to be defined)</small> for local applications 


 ## Developer Resources 

 * [[CodeStyle|code style guidelines]] 

 ### platform and libraries 
 * [C++ 03](http://en.cppreference.com/w/), [[CodeStyle|code style guidelines]] 03](http://en.cppreference.com/w/) 
 * [Boost >=1.42.0](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/), we use [[Boost|a limited set of Boost libraries]] 
 * [Boost Unit Test Framework](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/test/doc/html/index.html), more information on [[UnitTesting|unit testing]] 
 * [NDN-CPP-TLV](https://github.com/cawka/ndn-cpp/tree/new-dev) 
 * [waf build system](https://code.google.com/p/waf/) 

 ### development process 
 * [gerrit code review](http://gerrit.named-data.net/), more information: [Git and Gerrit in Action](https://www.jboss.org/dms/judcon/presentations/Boston2011/JUDConBoston2011_day1track2session6.pdf), [Using Gerrit Code Review in an Open Source Project](http://redmine.named-data.net/attachments/download/6/gerrit-slides-130203050220-phpapp01.pdf) 

 ### background knowledge 

 * [[ccndKnowledge|knowledge about ccnd]] 
 * [ndnSIM](http://ndnsim.net/) 
 * [NDNFD](https://github.com/NDN-Routing/NDNFD)