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