[sigcomm] attendance policies for SIGCOMM-affiliated events

[Armando L. Caro, Jr.]

Larry Peterson wrote:

> As a practical matter, once you invite one author per paper, the PC
> and SC, and as many students as you find room for (typically co-authors
> on accepted papers and co-authors on rejected papers), you've pretty
> much filled out the workshop. My recollection is that the number of
> invitations to play with is quite small, and usually go to a
> non-student co-author.

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> Regarding a transparent policy, I think we're pretty close to
> having one (see above). Said another way, the PC decides who
> attends based on the papers that are submitted.

I think inviting co-authors on accepted papers makes sense, but inviting
co-authors on rejected papers may shift the problem. Anyone can submit a
paper and have it rejected. How does the PC determine _which_ authors of
rejected papers will be invited? Maybe this hasn't been a problem in the
past, but it could come up.

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Armando
www.armandocaro.net