Dear friends,
I have received the message form Otto Spaniol concerning the review
process of ICCT'2000.
I fully agree in most of his comments. My only difference is that I have
been luckier tha him; I have succeeded to retrive at least one paper
(while I was witting this message the second one is arrived) (I continue
to be lucky; the third one is arrived).
I have been chariman of several programme committees and one of the
hardest taks is to distribute the papers among the program committee
members trying to balance the workload of each of them and respecting
theis expertise domains.
In this conference, belonging to the IFIP World Congress, this trask has
not been done. From the review form, apparently, we should review all
the papers. Otherwise the papers will cover in a random way a sample of
the papers, allowing the chairman to decide the accepted papers
practically just in his own opinion. And this is not fair. If this is
the process, I do not play this role.
Best regards to all of you, but specially to those belonging to this
extrange program committee
Ramon
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Dear Augusto,
>Please find the TC6 report for the IFIP Council in attach to this mail.
It seems that section 9 (Publications) is incomplete, although I don't know
when the previous GA took place.
In WG6.1, the following two books have also been published (probably in
that period):
- Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II
(Publication date: June or July 99)
- Testing of Communicating Systems - Methods and Applications
(Publication date: August or September 99)
Please, don't forget to address the problem of the cost of IFIP books at the GA.
This is becoming a problem, because this increases very much the
registration fee, and organizers start contemplating the issue of
publishing with another publisher. Also the delay of 12 weeks is still too
long (compared to IEEE press and ACM press for example).
Also, Kluwer does not seem to be willing to publish some proceedings
electronically (on CD-ROM for example), which would be a way to decrease
the registration fee. We approached them for electronic publication of the
PSTV/FORTE proceedings without success.
Finally, I'd like to know the number of IFIP books (and which ones) Kluwer
has managed to sell at that huge price.
Best regards,
Guy
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Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98
Universite de Liege Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Reseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www-run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/users/leduc.html
Hello Augusto,
USM'21000 in Munich (Sept. 2000) is an IFIP TC 6 event.
Now Claudia Linnhoff-Popien wrote:
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:52:55 +0100
From: Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
<linnhoff(a)nm.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Reply-to: usm2000(a)informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Organization: LMU Muenchen, Inst. f. Informatik
To: usm2000-pc(a)nm.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Subject: USM'2000: reviews, tutorials and invited talks
Dear USM'2000-PC member,
the deadline for USM 2000 passed a few days ago and the review process
started as you probably noticed. We finally received 44 submissions.
Springer Verlag acknowledged to publish the proceedings in their
series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
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Springer publications are good but....
What about royalties for IFIP? (Probably nothing!?).
What did USM'200 announce about publications in their Event Request Form?
Did they submit the Event Request Form?
Our publication policy (and our income situation) risks to become
relatively unstructured.
Best regards
Otto
Approved: ifip-distr.chairman
Hello,
I wonder if you could distribute the following information to any IFIP, or
other, email lists that you have access to.
thank you,
Dr Dave Lawrence
"Multimedia Internet Broadcasting"
A book of contributed research papers is to be published by Springer in
December 2000 - entitled "Multimedia Internet Broadcasting". This book,
edited by Dr Andy Sloane (University of Wolverhampton, Chair IFIP WG 9.3),
and Dr Dave Lawrence (Middlesex University), will represent leading edge
thinking and knowledge in this high profile, and interesting area.
Call for Papers - for forthcoming book (ISBN 1- 85233-283-2)
Second Deadline: Full Papers - 31st March 2000 (short abstracts are
welcome for initial feedback purposes - preferably prior to end of
February)
Please check the book's webpage for more
details: http://mib.mdx.ac.uk/
{HYPERLINK "mailto:crg@scit.wlv.ac.uk"}
Dr Dave Lawrence
Computing Science
Trent Park
London
N14 4YZ
0181 362 6489
dave7(a)mdx.ac.uk
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/~dave7/home.htm
Dear TC6 members,
Could you please, distribute through your national and international
mailing lists the following message,
concerning the Networking 2000 conference call for participation. (you
can modify the text to adapt the presentation to your style)
Thank you in advances,
Best regards,
Guy
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!! Early registration DEADLINE: April 15 !!
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Call for participation
Networking 2000
May 14-19, 2000
Paris, France
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The year 2000 deserves the organization of exceptional events.
Networking'2000 intends to be one of them. With three international
conferences in parallel tracks, three outstanding invited speakers,
twelves tutorials and nine mini-conferences, Networking'2000 will be THE
first networking week of the millenium. You must be there.
More information and submission:
http://netconf.lip6.fr/net2000 (registration site)
http://www.uvsq.fr/~net2000http://www.noc.uoa.gr/net2000
Networking 2000 conference is a joint conference of:
HPN (High Performance Networking) Aaren 1987, Liège 1988, Berlin 1990,
Liège 1992, Grenoble 1994, Palma 1995, New York 1997, Vienna 1998, Paris
2000.
BC (Broadband Communications) Paris 1995, Montreal 1996, Lisboa 1997,
Stuttgart 1998, Hong-Kong 1999, Paris 2000.
PCN (Performance of Communication Networks) Paris 1981, Zürich 1984, Rio
de Janeiro 1987, Barcelona 1990, Raleigh 1993, Lund 1998, Paris 2000.
Dear Augusto and Otto,
>as far as I see there are mainly two "competing" proposals:
>
>A. merge 6.2/6.4 and establish a separate WG on Internet issues
>
>B. refresh aims and scopes of WG 6.4 (to include parts of the actual WG 6.4)
Which parts?
> and
> modify 6.4 aims and scopes in a way that they include most or all of
> the internet related questions (which were proposed by Arun Iyengar
> and - earlier - by Guy Pujolle).
>
>I understand that Augusto is now in favour of alternative B.
>To my opinion, this would be indeed the preferable solution.
As far as I understand, both proposals are identical in the sense that the
scopes of the 2 WGs would end up to be defined in the same way.
The only issue is to know which numbers we assign them.
This is an "irrelevant detail" to me.
Keeping the existing WG6.2 and WG6.4 (while changing their scopes) requires
to restructure the memberships anyway. This is like disbanding them and
recreating them from scratch. Now WG6.4 would not deal with the IP layer at
all any more, but only with layers over IP, and even over TCP/UDP if I
understand well.
All "lower layer experts" have to move to WG6.2 then.
And conferences like HPN and PfHSN would move to WG6.2 too.
WG6.4 would be an empty WG where everything would have to be created.
I don't see much difference with creating a new WG from scratch.
Do you?
Best regards,
Guy
________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98
Universite de Liege Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Reseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www-run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/users/leduc.html
re.: restructuring of TC6 working groups
Dear all,
as far as I see there are mainly two "competing" proposals:
A. merge 6.2/6.4 and establish a separate WG on Internet issues
B. refresh aims and scopes of WG 6.4 (to include parts of the actual WG 6.4)
and
modify 6.4 aims and scopes in a way that they include most or all of
the internet related questions (which were proposed by Arun Iyengar
and - earlier - by Guy Pujolle).
I understand that Augusto is now in favour of alternative B.
To my opinion, this would be indeed the preferable solution.
The question concerning TG 6.11 on Electronic Commerce would have to
be treated by both alternatives. It appears to be obvious that TC6 cannot
claim to have exclusive rights in this vast area. Thus we will have
to limit ourselves towards communication systems (i.e. internet related)
aspects of Electronic Commerce.
This means to me that "Electronic Commerce in TC6" are roughly speaking
"Internet related questions of Electronic Commerce". Thus, if we establish
a working group on Internet (which is a good idea and which is part of
either alternative A and B) then Electronic Commerce would be a major
part of that group.
Hence TG 6.11 might be disbanded and become a part of the internet related
working group.
(Whereas disbanding an activity is a serious step it might be reasonable
in this case - and it is in some sense supported by the observation that
it appears to be not easy or even impossible for TC6 to establish new
events in that area).
Best regards
Otto
Dear TC6 members,
Please find attached an upudate of the TC6 calendar.
I would thank that the WG chairmen who do not find an IFIP Event
Reference number in an event ask the respective organiser to fill the
respective ERF as soon as possible.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca