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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