-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Changes in Computer Communications Review (CCR) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:03:49 -0500 From: Erich Nahum nahum@turing.acm.org Reply-To: Erich Nahum nahum@turing.acm.org To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

CCR is evolving!

To push forward the changes successfully begun by John Wroclawski, CCR is starting a new life with the April 2005 issue, with a new editor in chief (Christophe Diot from Intel Research) and a new editorial board (see names below). The goal is for CCR to strengthen its role as the network community newsletter in which we are each involved and contribute.

CCR will publish papers in the general field of data communications characterized primarily by quality of the work and timeliness of publication. CCR will encourage publication of "works in progress", provided they are of good caliber. Experience papers, system papers, and papers reproducing others' results, should find a home in CCR, as long as the quality is high enough and useful to the community.

To achieve the quality and timeliness goals, the reviewing turn-over will be three months, with an implicit submission deadline every quarter. The decisions will be either accept or reject. Each paper will be published with a public review that will synthesize the reviewers' opinion.

In addition to papers, CCR will publish a news-like section which will include articles based on input from research community members - faculty members, junior researchers, students, industry researchers, etc. The scope for such articles will span topics such as interviews of research scientists and industry leaders, editorials, conference reports, summary standards, NSF or European Commission user manuals, arguments on a research topic, outrageous opinion column, favorite hits, What's Worth Reading, and so on.

To conclude, we ask networking researchers (and SIGCOMM members in particular) to take to heart that CCR is your newsletter and its content is made by you! Please send your short columns, editorials, articles, etc. We will review them and strive our best to publish them.

Christophe Diot, Editor in Chief Jennifer Rexford, SIGCOMM chair Vern Paxson, SIGCOMM vice-chair

The new editorial board is

Chadi Barakat, INRIA Ernst Biersack, Eurecom Mark Crovella, Boston University Jon Crowcroft, U. of Cambridge Constantinos Dovrolis, GaTech Serge Fdida, U. of Paris 6 Steve Gribble, U. of Washignton Roch Guerin, U. of Pennsilvania Dina Katabi, MIT Srinisivan Keshav, U. of Waterloo Venkat Padmanabhan, MSR Matt Roughan, U. of Adelaide