[sigcomm] attendance policies for SIGCOMM-affiliated events

[Joe Touch]

Scott Shenker wrote:
> 
> On Nov 8, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
>>
>> Greg said:
>>> 4.  a limited conference may "further research only for the
>>> attendees".  but,
>>> that seems unlikely.  it will hopefully (if it is any good) further
>>> the field
>>> of network research.  thus, it will be directly of benefit to the set of
>>> attendees, and indirectly of benefit to the rest of us.  presumably,
>>> ideas,
>>> even papers, from the workshop, eventually make it to SIGCOMM, or are
>>> shot
>>> down.
>>
>> IMO, (b) has its place for a research organization. The ACM isn't one,
>> and isn't here to promote research.
>>
>> Joe
> 
> The ACM's own description of its role (on its web page) is:
> 
> "ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is an international
> scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts,
> sciences, and applications of information technology."
> 
> While I haven't studied ACM's bylaws and charter at all, I think this
> brief description would encompass what Greg is talking about.

Yes, but that's not what conferences and workshops are necessarily for.
Those are venues for discourse, not mechanisms for advancing the arts,
sciences, etc.

Joe

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