Dear Guy and all,
In the long run, it makes little sense to have a TC6 journal published by an official publisher like Springer. In 4 years from now, IFIP and Springer may have no agreement any more. If our journal is published by Springer, what shall we do?
It is a fact that we discussed in Poland the possibility of having a TC6 journal published by Springer! My impression is that this was just one of our numerous nonnsense discussions.
I think we should look for open access solutions (for the TC6 journal AND the IFIP DL). This is the only reasonable way.
Do you think Springer could accept the idea of a fully open access journal (at no cost for authors and no cost for readers) with copyrights retained by authors? If so, we may not close that door.
If somebody wants to discuss with Springer about that, please do so. I wish him or her good luck. Springer will probably ask this person whether she lives in this world or not: no cost for authors and no cost for readers but probably "some" production cost for Springer. Who would compensate for that? Springer has to pay the employees etc. The dream of financing everything by advertisement (this might be also in the background of the above proposal) is more than questionable.
Springer may not be the solution that we want; however, several TC6 delegates have already expressed that they would be happy with such a suboptimal solution. Furthermore: "I you don't get what you like you will have to like what you get".
Best regards Otto