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Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Fri Mar 26 16:19:37 2004

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:18:59 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040326211207.F227D7B41@berkshire.research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 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've approached a few likely parties; reaction thus far is favorable.  
> I'll post a note here when I get explicit go-aheads.  It's not free for 
> the publishing venue -- they have to have access to enough competent 
> reviewers.
> 
> The converse, of course, is that the operational community will have to
> generate enough papers...

What ever happened to the blue, paper-back-book-sizes periodical,
"Proceedings of the Bell Laboratories" or summatlikethat?

(Hmmmm...I wonder which library _those_ are buried in.....)

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