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 > > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > NANOG@nanog.org > http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
