2010-08-12

Re: [Tccc] Different community, similar problems? (Henning Schulzrinne)

> The reason I would argue the new way is not "right" is that the
> quality control for conferences is way inferior to that of
> journals. And the reason for that is just the time limits and the
> impossibility of rebuttal and dialog to sort out disagreements.

I think that's a fair enough point. But, maybe:

- Our many conferences serve the same sort of purpose for
iteration---albeit in a looser and more distributed way (which has
pros and cons). So, in the aggregate we are seeing the quality
control.

- A more hybrid approach like the VLDB stuff is a better sweet spot.

I find it a very difficult problem to really reason about in the large.
I.e., what is globally "best" seems pretty difficult to say, to me.

allman

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