[sigcomm] considerations for reviewing extended papers

[Fred Douglis]

Mukarram,

You make an excellent point about double-blind reviewing.  It certainly 
does make it hard to relate the work to earlier publications.

I noticed recently that in the DB community, Sam Madden and David Dewitt 
released a study  
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld/messages/2006-04/1146194156.html) of the 
impact (actually, the lack thereof) of changing SIGMOD to be 
double-blind.  I commented on it in the SIGOPS forum 
(http://www.sigops.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30) but it got little 
comment except from Ken Birman, who said the topic had come up at the 
SIGOPS business meeting last year. 

Fred