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

From: Steven M. Bellovin (no email)
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 13:59:20 EDT

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    On 05 May 2008 16:07:03 +0000
    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?

    I did some checking on this topic a few years ago. The consensus among
    the people I talked to was that NANOG itself seemed to generate too
    little that was publishable in a formal way to warrant a specific
    mechanism.

    A web site like arxiv is good for some stuff. But -- should there be a
    link from nanog.org to operational content? Should nanog.org have
    its own archive? Should there be a peer review process? If not, what
    should the criteria be for an "official" note of the paper?

                    --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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