“…The purpose of this note is to "explain" the second class of papers to those familiar with the first class. I do not intend here to give a detailed sketch of the Kasparov KK-approach to the Novikov conjecture (for which the key details appear in [Kas4], [Fac2], and [KS]), since this has already been done in the convenient expository references [Fac1], [Kas2], [Kas3], [Bla], and [Kas5]. Nor do I intend to explain the approach to the Novikov conjecture taken by Mishchenko and Soloviev (found in [Mis1], [Mis2], [MS], [Mis3], and [KS, Appendix]), using Fredholm representations but not using KK, for which a convenient expository reference is [HsR].…”