[69082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Mar 24 22:10:32 2004
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:01:56 EST."
<BC8601E4.3686%dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:09:50 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <BC8601E4.3686%dgolding@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
