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@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ Hybrid Information-Centric Networking (hICN) ======================== ## Introduction -hicn is an open source implementation of Cisco's hICN. It includes a network -stack, that implements ICN forwarding path in IPv6, and a transport stack -that implements two main transport protocols and a socket API. -The transport protocols provide one reliable transport service implementaton -and a real-time transport service for audio/video media. +hicn is an open source implementation of Cisco's hICN. It includes a network stack, that implements +ICN forwarding path in IPv6, and a transport stack that implements two main transport protocols and +a socket API. The transport protocols provide one reliable transport service implementaton and a +real-time transport service for audio/video media. ## Directory layout @@ -19,15 +18,30 @@ and a real-time transport service for audio/video media. | utils | Tools for testing | | apps | Application examples using hicn stack | +hicn plugin is a VPP plugin that implement hicn packet processing as specified in +https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-muscariello-intarea-hicn/. The transport library is used to +implement the hicn host stack and makes use of libmemif as high performance connector between +transport and the network stack. The transport library makes use of VPP binary API to configure the +local namespace (local face management). ## Supported platforms -- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (x86_64) -- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (x86_64) -- Debian Stable/Testing -- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 -- CentOS 7 +- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (amd64) +- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (amd64) +- CentOS 7 (x86_64) - Android 8 - iOS 12 - macOS 10.12 - Windows 10 + +## Binaries +# Ubuntu 16/18 (amd64) and CentOS 7 (x86_64) +https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release + +## Release note +The current master branch provides the 19.01 release which is compatible with the 19.01 VPP stable. +No other VPP releases are supported nor maintained. At every new VPP release distribution hicn +master branch is updated to work with the latest stable release. All previous stable releases +are discontinued and not maintained. The user who is interested in a specific release can always +checkout the rigth code tree by searching the latest commit under a given git tag carrying the +release version.
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