[NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues
Marshall Eubanks
tme at multicasttech.com
Mon May 5 17:28:49 UTC 2008
On May 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, David Andersen wrote:
> On May 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>>
>>> But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big
>>> help
>>> in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago.
>>
>> and now for something completely different -- where in the
>> interpipes could
>> a document like that have been published, vs. ISC's web site? the
>> amount
>> of red tape and delay involved in Usenix or IETF or IEEE or ACM are
>> vastly
>> more than most smart ops people are willing to put in. where is the
>> light /
>> middle weight class, or is every organization or person who wants to
>> publish
>> this kind of thing going to continue to have the exclusive and bad
>> choice of
>> "blog it, or write an article for ;login:/ACM-Queue/Circle-ID, or
>> write an
>> academic paper and wait ten months"? isn't this a job for... NANOG?
>
> If you're asking seriously: arXiv.org is a pretty reasonable
> candidate for less-formal but more-public publication of things like
> Joe's TechNote.
>
> It's taken off seriously in physics, but I don't know anyone who uses
> it seriously for computer science stuff.
There are certain types of networking problems where arxiv gets decent
traffic; I get about 1 paper
per day on networking and cryptography.
At any rate, I would encourage people to use it and this seems like a
possible appropriate paper for it.
Regards
Marshall
> Probably because our
> conferences have much faster turnaround than most discipline's
> journals do. But arXiv exists, it'll probably be around for a while,
> and it provides a reasonable starting point for hosting and citing the
> documents...
>
> -Dave
>
>
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