Dear Otto, At 14:39 +0200 11/05/05, Otto Spaniol wrote:
Dear Guy, Edmundo, and all:
As discussed at the last TC6, please consider to make Networking 2006 a single track conference with a single TPC.
Sorry, I really meant a single TPC, not a single track conference. I wrote too fast. 2 or 3 tracks are fine. Sorry about the confusion. Best regards, Guy
I would not recommend such a drastic action. If we look at Networking 2005, then we have had - some 100 papers - some 40 posters - approx. 10 TC6 members ... and a total of just 200 participants.
Thus there were only 50 "independent" participants.
If we do the conference 2006 as a single track with maybe 30 papers then we might assume that the number of participants would be reduced by 70-80 more participants, i.e. no more than 120 or so.
Ironically speaking: we should not refuse a single manuscript but invite them all as a poster contribution. Then the authors would come.
More serious (a little bit): Maybe a two track event would be in order and some brilliant invited talks (such as given by Kumar in 2005) would be also more than welcome.
I also suggest to remove all the TPC members from Networking 2005 who have been unreliable.
No objection against that!
Best regards Otto
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