Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

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