Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

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.

researchers publish in real journals with academic peer review, and would get no brownie points for publishing in a nanog journal. vendors' presentations have megatons of paper to back them, all nice and glossy. deciding how much information they contain is left as an exercise for the student. operators rarely have the time, resources, or inclination to produce good papers. if one believes the above, this leaves a nanog journal as a vendor press, of which, imiho, there already is sufficient in the world. randy