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👋 @janniswarnat - While this looks like nice software and is well-described, I don't see how it is research software that would be suitable for JOSS. See https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html, specifically "The software should have an obvious research application." If you disagree, please explain how this is research software.

@danielskatz My institute is part of the German Fraunhofer Society that focuses specifically on "applied research", in the case of my department on innovative applications of IoT technology funded by the European Union´s Horizon 2020 programme. E.g. currently there is a project running in which we deploy different sensors during large open-air events and process the data live in a cloud environment to improve the event´s security, visitors´ experience and noise management. Border Gateway is useful to provide basic protection for these kinds of experimental IoT deployments.

So from your submission page I think it fits "supports [...] the execution of research experiments". It is of course up to you to decide how broadly you want to interpret this definition.

@janniswarnat - In our opinion, this does not currently qualify as research software, as it is presented in the repo and the paper. Therefore, we are going to mark it as rejected. If you want to recast it as solving a research problem, feel free to resubmit.