[e2e] Re: double bland reviewing

[Durga Prasad Pandey]

The Development by Design Conference (DyD02) had an excellent online peer
review system. Files could be uploaded on the website in a workspace, peer
reviews submitted, and authors could post replies to the reviews online.
It has other interesting features too.

You can check out for yourself: www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02 

Durga

> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:29:19 -0700
> From: Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [e2e] double bland reviewing
> To: Jon Crowcroft <Jon.Crowcroft at cl.cam.ac.uk>
> Cc: end2end-interest at postel.org
> Message-ID: <40897C9F.3060201 at isi.edu>
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> 
> 
> 
> Jon Crowcroft wrote:
> 
> > so certain conferences have a tradition of double blind
> > submission/review process to minimse the effect of
> > "oh its by so and so so it must be {brilliant|rubbish}"
> > 
> > some people have been known to post TRs to this (and similar lists)
> > just before the submission date to achieve certain effecs
> > i) familiarity amongst possible subset of reviewer pool
> > ii) feedback about paper to improve it before submitting....
> > 
> > these are not necessarily bad things, except for the 
> > iii) "brand recognition effect"
> > 
> > how about we setup a parallel list to e2e, which is closed
> > member-only submission, but anonimyzed.
> 
> Can you be more specific? You want to strip all attribution about who is
> posting?
> 
> > so then people could "safely" post drafts to get community feedback
> > without breaching etiquette
> 
> It might be required to have a place (e.g., postel.org) where people
> could post docs without mailing them as attachments. I.e., if I post an
> anonymized paper, then you know who's posting it...
> 
> > I have here (affecting a Tom Lehrer voice/accent) a modest example I
> > prepared earier of just such a possible submission - this is, of
> > course, not by me, but by my evil twin at Some Other Cambridge
> > University Computer Laboratory
> 
> Thus the email source question above ;-)
> 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Self Similarity in the Arrival Process of 
> > Network Systems Architectures considered Harmful
> 
> Have you considered Sigcomm's OO session as an alternative ;-)
> 
> Joe


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