Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

On May 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, David Andersen wrote:

> On May 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > > But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big
> > > help
> > > in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago.
> >
> > and now for something completely different -- where in the
> > interpipes could
> > a document like that have been published, vs. ISC's web site?  the
> > amount
> > of red tape and delay involved in Usenix or IETF or IEEE or ACM are
> > vastly
> > more than most smart ops people are willing to put in.  where is the
> > light /
> > middle weight class, or is every organization or person who wants to
> > publish
> > this kind of thing going to continue to have the exclusive and bad
> > choice of
> > "blog it, or write an article for ;login:/ACM-Queue/Circle-ID, or
> > write an
> > academic paper and wait ten months"?  isn't this a job for... NANOG?
>
> If you're asking seriously:  arXiv.org is a pretty reasonable
> candidate for less-formal but more-public publication of things like
> Joe's TechNote.
>
> It's taken off seriously in physics, but  I don't know anyone who uses
> it seriously for computer science stuff.


There are certain types of networking problems where arxiv gets decent  
traffic; I get about 1 paper
per day on networking and cryptography.

At any rate, I would encourage people to use it and this seems like a  
possible appropriate paper for it.

Regards
Marshall

>  Probably because our
> conferences have much faster turnaround than most discipline's
> journals do.  But arXiv exists, it'll probably be around for a while,
> and it provides a reasonable starting point for hosting and citing the
> documents...
>
>   -Dave
>
>
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