[69166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Mon Mar 29 05:24:01 2004
To: randy@psg.com
Cc: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>,
nanog@merit.edu, owner-nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:22:01 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>well, a copy of "the bell technical journal" with the first
>paper describing unix is on my shelf.
On my bookshelf too.
I believe this was more of a "technical reports" series
than a referreed journal since it contained only work
being done by the one organization. A lot of universities
and research labs also publish a "technical reports" series
that describes work whichj may or may not make its way into
journals and conference proceedings.
Would it be better to think of a way that NANOG could publish
a series of NANOG Technical Reports rather than a journal?
This seems to be the ideal way to formalize work that is
supposed to focus on the here and now by describing stuff
that is operationally useful no more than 6 months into the
future.
Then we would have an archive of NANOG presentations,
associated NANOG Technical Reports and the occasional
pointer to a journal paper when the author takes their
work to that stage.
--Michael Dillon
