Publish or (gulp) Perish

Thu Mar 25 03:09:50 UTC 2004

In message <BC8601E4.3686%dgolding at burtongroup.com>, Daniel Golding writes:
>
>Slightly off-topic...
>
>Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish
>interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to
>the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do these sorts of publications
>exist in the networking/carrier/internetworking space, and if not, should
>they?

I think a refereed forum -- more likely a conference with proceedings, 
at least at first, than a journal -- is an excellent idea.  But 
don't underestimate the amount of work it would take, on an ongoing 
basis.  It also takes a long time to establish enough credibility that 
academics would publish in it.  A better path might be to carve out a 
niche in an existing conference or journal.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb