Dear Otto (all),

In order to handle the publication problem with springer (and the special
case of IWQoS'05), I need a copy of the IFIP - Springer agreement.
More specifically, I wish to check if the agreement covers the price
at which the "IFIP-LNCS" series should be sold (publicly or to
conference organisers).  If the agreement does not stipulate any constraint
then it may be the case that, "legally", Springer
is free to sell the "IFIP-LNCS" publications at a higher price.

In MHO, the agreement should have covered the pricing issue. It should
have stipulated that "IFIP-LNCS" should be sold at the same price
as regular LNCS series.

Anyhow, I think that we should discourage Springer from presenting two
price lists to IFIP/TC6 event organisers. What means do we have to enforce

this rule ?

Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:26:45 +0200
To: "Hofmann, Alfred, Springer DE" <Alfred.Hofmann@springer-sbm.com>
From: Guy Leduc <Guy.Leduc@ulg.ac.be>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: IFIP publications in LNCS

Cc: <gutsmied@fmi.uni-passau.de>, <iwqos@fmi.uni-passau.de>, "Guenther, Christine, Springer DE" <Christine.Guenther@springer-sbm.com>, Otto Spaniol <spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, Elie Najm <Elie.Najm@enst.fr>

Dear Alfred,

Let me come back to this issue of IWQoS 2005 and its publication in the IFIP LNCS series.

I was attending an IFIP TC6 meeting this week-end and was able to discuss this issue with the committee.

First of all, let me briefly quote article 31e of the "AGREEMENT BETWEEN IFIP AND SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA" I read:

"Royalties to IFIP for volumes published in IFIP LNCS will be paid as a one-time advance publication fee upon publication of the respective volume, and will be 10% of the estimated total sales of the volume, excluding bulk sales."

If our understanding is correct, this means that there is NO royalties due to IFIP on the bulk sales, and only 10% of royalties on (the estimated) post conference sales!

The current position of Springer LNCS on this issue, which consists of advertizing two price lists (one for standard LNCS and another one for IFIP LNCS) and of justifying the 30% difference as a result of royalties due to IFIP thus violates this agreement and should not be continued.

Therefore IFIP TC6 is firstly asking a clarification on this issue.

Then, regarding IWQoS 2005 in particular, we recommend to apply article 31e of this agreement, namely that the conference proceedings should be published in IFIP LNCS, but at the standard LNCS price.

Unless our understanding of the agreement is incorrect, we also recommend that this should be the case for all IFIP TC6 conferences published in IFIP LNCS from now on.

Finally, I copy this email to Prof. Otto Spaniol, chairman of IFIP TC6, and to Prof. Elie Najm who has taken over the chairmanship of IFIP WG6.1 since the 1st of January 2005. For this reason, Elie will now be in charge of this issue for IWQoS 2005.

Best regards,

Guy

Former IFIP WG6.1 chairman

Best regards,

Elie

PS: I enjoyed the Toronto meeting and look forward to the next one
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