You Must be Joking... The most serious editorial column ever Michalis Faloutsos UC Riverside, CA So what s the idea here? I will tell you. This an editorial on the social events and lighter topics and issues of the sigcomm community, and networking community in general. The main goal is to enhance the cohesiveness of the community and provide useful information and social commentary. In this light, we welcome ideas about topics that you would like us to cover, interesting news, strange phenomena, puzzling trends. Knowing our audience, we expect that most of the submissions will be mind-bogglingly boring. To our surprise, we have already received several very interesting ones. Review-wars part II: The revenge of the journals. (If you don t follow the tccc list, start now, or check the tcc link below.) In the summer, we had the big hoopla with the Infocom reviewing workload: the main concern there is too much reviewing per TPC member (20 papers at 12-13 pages) and this on top of all the other reviewing engagements. Some brilliant and some crazy solutions were heard... Totally justified objection, completely pointless discussion - did we decide anything? I termed this first phase Review-wars
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