============================================================================== ISOC Document Title: IEEE Proposals - Publications and Technical Committee Author: A.M.Rutkowski Date: 20 June 1995 Body: Board of Trustees Document: 95-014 Revision: basic Supersedes: - Status: Final Maintainer: A.M.Rutkowski Access: unrestricted ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I recently asked Tom Chen of GTE Laboratories to become the Editor of ComSoc's proposed new "Global Communications Surveys." Tom will prepare a proposal for the ComSoc Board of Governors, June 21, 1995. I had hoped we could plan this together as a joint publication; or perhaps some other joint initiative. Do you have a person assigned to work with us? If not, I wpuld like Tom Chen to contact you to determine if this particular new on-line publication suites and/or can be enhanced be joint sponsorship. Regards, Tom plevyak Tom, As you know, I'm a big believer of the increasing importance of surveys and other "information-finding" vehicles. They'll be of increasing value as the amount of information available to us continues to grow. Here are some specific comments on Global Communications Surveys: - the idea of going backwards to provide pointers to high quality earlier surveys (both IEEE and others) is a great idea. I'd use such a service today, if it were available. - the real problem for the future will be finding people who will take the time to write a high-quality surveys. If someone does take the time to do so, it is very possible that they would send it to a "real" journal (e.g., Proc. IEEE) rather than an electronic "publication". The problem is that we are now at the crossroads between the paper journal and the electronic journal. Publication in paper journals (or at least ones, with volume numbers, and which are abstracted, published in Science Citation, etc.) is still what counts here in the university. If I were to write a survey, I would probably send it to Proc. IEEE or ACM Computing Surveys. Unless the Global Communication Surveys" is as real or at least wide-read as these journals, we'll have a difficult time competing. An alternative to the traditional journal (which appears to be what you have in mind) is to be a source for survey information, whether it be pointers to surveys appearing in other journals, or surveys written specifically for the electronic effort. A lot of work will be needed to get the latter ones, however. Even an effort that did nothing more than gather together and organize (perhaps with commentary) pointers to other surveys would be a very valuable resource. If new material is publushed there, then even better. The latter is not *necessary* to provide a valuable service. - Many people (almost everyone) these days seem to be "deadline driven." Doing anything on an "as available" basis (which is how you refer to the original surveys being published) may lessen the pressure to get a product out, resulting in less product coming out. I'm not pushing for a deadline-driven publication such as a journal like JSAC, but it's been my experience that deadlines can be important motivators. Jim > > > Maurizio, > Steve, > > As discussed in my brief Publications Report during the April 3rd OpCom > conference call, I would like to move forward with a new ComSoc publication > called "Global Communications Surveys." This will be born as an electronic- > only publication which will present survey papers in support of contemporary > researchers who are increasingly utilizing the Internet to quickly find > topical material. It will likely start as a pointer in our ComSoc home page. > Existing high-quality survey papers from all our publications (going back > perhaps three or four years) as well as high quality surveys from other > publications (if practical) will be the initialization. Going-forward, > excellent survey papers will be generated by noteable authors and subject > matter experts and will be published in the electronic database on an "as > available" basis, not periodically. Peer review is anticipated. I do not > envision a fee for access and use of the survey information, at least in the > near-term. I see this as a global electronic service which will guide users > to ComSoc, ComSoc publications and individual papers. > > Tom Chen is one of our most enthusiastic and talented Technical Editors > (COMMUNICATIONS Magazine). I have invited him to consider the role of Editor > of ComSoc's Global Communications Surveys. You can see from his message that > he is interested. > > Before proceeding, I would like your views across all aspects of this proposal. > The CC: list may also comment. > Steve (Weinstein) VP-Technical Affairs, IEEE Communications Society, and President Elect sbw@ccrl.nj.nec.com (609) 951-2990 ------------------------------------------------- DRAFT CHARTER OF THE INTERNET TECHNICAL COMMITTEE The Internet Technical Committee is a joint committee of the Internet Society and the IEEE Communications Society for the purpose of stimulating interdisciplinary technical exchange and the application of state of the art communications and related technologies to Internet infrastructure and services. The Committee seeks to generate new technical insights from the interaction between and convergence of the open, packet-oriented perspective of the Internet community and the more closely managed, circuit-oriented perspective of the public network community. 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