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Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish
From: "Matthew F. Ringel" <ringel () net tufts edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:14:49 -0500
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:01:56PM -0500, Daniel Golding wrote:
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? Some possible examples (if anyone reads them): SIGCOMM (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/), BCR (http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/), Cisco's IPJ (http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/759/).
USENIX's ";login" (http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/) is another good example.
I'm leaving off "news" publications like Light Reading and Network World. Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of journals obsolete? :)
I certainly hope not. Powerpoint has its place, but it's not really a format for the distribution of research information. The information density just isn't there. That, and without the audio of the presentation to go along with the slides, most of the actual content is lost. I believe that NANOG should have an actual journal of some kind, likely with issues on a thrice-yearly basis. I'd wager that most NANOG presentations have a paper's worth of information backing them. Writing out the information in publication form not only makes it a useful reference for later perusal, but gives something you can point to as part of a concrete body of work that you've created, the benefits of which I leave as an exercise for the reader. ....Matthew ------ Matthew F. Ringel Sr. Network Engineer Tufts University
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- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish, (continued)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 26)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Mar 26)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Randy Bush (Mar 26)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Howard C. Berkowitz (Mar 26)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Robert E. Seastrom (Mar 26)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Marshall Eubanks (Mar 26)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Mar 26)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Michael . Dillon (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Irwin Lazar (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Pekka Savola (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Irwin Lazar (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Matthew F. Ringel (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Randy Bush (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Joe St Sauver (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Randy Bush (Mar 24)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Michael . Dillon (Mar 25)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Howard C. Berkowitz (Mar 26)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Michael . Dillon (Mar 25)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish sgorman1 (Mar 25)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Michael . Dillon (Mar 29)
- Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 29)