[sigcomm] sig/eurosig/asiasig?

[Jennifer Rexford]

Good point about NSDI.  Another related conference is the (relatively) 
new CoNext conference

   http://adetti.iscte.pt/events/CONEXT06/
   http://dmi.ensica.fr/conext/

that is "in cooperation with SIGCOMM" (just as NSDI is).  Arguably 
CoNext is broader than the annual SIGCOMM conference, and NSDI is 
arguably a bit narrower (in having a systems focus), but having events 
with different flavors might very well make sense.

One reluctance I have about having three nearly-the-same events a year 
is that it probably doesn't make sense to have multiple co-located 
workshops (which have been co-located with the SIGCOMM conference 
starting in 2003) three times a year, so we might very well want just 
one full-week-long event and have it rotate geographies, along with some 
near-comparable events that follow the more traditional 2.5-3 day model.

-- Jen


> Craig,
> 
> you are pretty far ahead of me.  i took Nick's interesting suggestion as the 
> beginning of a discussion on this list.  i figured that at the end, if a group 
> of people were convinced this was a good idea, then would be the time to 
> formulate a way of polling the membership at large.
> 
> my take is that this is worth discussing.  maybe have each of the three happen 
> every 18 months, roughly spring and (early) fall, so there would be two 
> events, roughly 6 months apart, each year.
> 
> i'm not sure Eurosys is a good model, as my understanding when i was at SOSP 
> is that it isn't really intended to be a "EuroSOSP".  but, maybe i just didn't 
> catch that.
> 
> but, i'd be interested in hearing about the crypto community's experiences 
> with *Crypto, how long they've been doing each, etc.
> 
> (an alternative i see is that NSDI "grows up" into a very strong conference, 
> held each year in the US, and that this "allows" SIGCOMM to have a 3 year 
> rotation: North America, Asia, Europe [note that i'm on the NSDI steering 
> committee].)
> 
> cheers, Greg
> 
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