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 # D4 Project Architecture
 
+# Objectives
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+- A lightweight protocol to support streaming collection of different data types
+- A minimal architecture to create dedicated sensor network (internal or external)
+- Keeping a simple set of software to support a wide variety of sensor types (software, hardware or virtual)
+- Provide an all-in-one open source solution with minimal dependencies
+- Supporting additional information sharing capabilities to interconnect D4 sensor networks
+- A set of default ready-to-run sensor network such as a DDoS backscatter traffic monitoring, Passive DNS collection or specific network monitoring
+
 ## D4 Encapsulation Protocol
 
 ![Overview of the D4 encapsulation protocol](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/D4-project/architecture/master/docs/diagram/d4-protocol-encapsulation.png)
 
-For more details, check out the [format](./format/) page.
+For more details about the encapsulation protocol, check out the [format](./format/) page.