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Electronic publishing, of course
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IACR electronic publishing
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Dec 21 2008, 7:01 PM EST by
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This is Hilarie Orman. Of course the IACR should switch to electronic publishing with unfettered access.
I think that IACR will need to take additional care to preserve the electronic archive through replication and attention to drifts in data formats (it's now awkward to read old postscript docs), and we may need to print several paper copies for libraries (those that still have paper).
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RE: Electronic publishing, of course
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Dec 21 2008, 7:01 PM EST
Of course this is the direction: e-publications! Further, archiving is super-important!
But: provided that this will serve (and will not hurt) all our members.
The main issue is that formal publications and the scientific index (and other similar issues, that mostly have nothing to do with science itself), are taken as a "formal method" for evaluation of research by various bodies in many countries. Of course the objectivity of these measures is doubtful, and their methodology is archaic (at best). There are companies behind the index and publishers that have commercial interests, and while science requires wide unfettered access to publications, assessment of the publications is apparently needed as well. Namely, as long as scientific bodies like universities, academies of science and other administrators of science world wide, take formal publications that are cited by one index or another, it is upon IACR to make sure its publications are taken into account in the index and related lists (otherwise it is serving only the non-academic and US-academic communities only where the index and formal assessment is typically replaced by peer review letters). I would say we have to make sure the flagship conferences, workshops and journal need to be indexed by these forums. Alternatively, we may form our own index for "cryptographic research," but it has to be objective and done carefully, and needs to be recognized internationally. We have to serve all our members world wide first! (whereas morphing the "publication monopolies" allowing global "e-access" is highly important, but may need a lengthy fight and thus it comes second on my list!)
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Electronic Reviewing and Refereeing
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Jun 5 2007, 11:56 AM EDT by
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Moving to free electronic publishing seems to be fortunately the tendency, not only in crypto but in CS in general; let me point a nice article by K. Apt:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~apt/ps/naw07.pdf on Arxiv.
What is also interesting is the mention on 'electronic reviewing and refereeing' of McCurley, and it reminds me another interesting read:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1796
in which the idea of publishing the reviews themselves is put forward. It's in the psicology field, and not about electronic publishing, but I would certainly profit from
reading online reviews (perhaps optionally anonymized) of crypto/security papers.
Ricardo Corin
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Electronic and print!
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Jan 11 2007, 4:17 AM EST by
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I completely agree with Mr. Mccurley: for example, my first university does not have any access to Springer papers; it is often hard to convince administrative staff of the necessity of such access (and pay for it).
At the same time, books are easier to read than electronic versions. So we may try to publish proceedings giving no rights to publishers. Then every paper would be available both in elctronic and printed version.
Dmitry Khovratovich
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I personally would like to see IACR uses electronic voting
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Should IACR hold electronic elections?
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Dec 22 2006, 6:42 PM EST by
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My main motivation is the desire to see non-trivial cryptography being implemented and used. I think that our field as a whole would benefit from more use of cryptography in the real world, and what better way to promote it than to use it ourselves. -- Shai
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Is it sustainable?
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Dec 22 2006, 6:42 PM EST
The technology used for today's election has been in use since the 1980s (although obviously the postal system and paper is older than that). Each year we have an election and roll out a new ballot, and while it requires some nontrivlal amount of work to print and mail the ballots, the process is easily repeatable from one year to the next. Each year there is a new person in charge of the election, but each year it is easy to transfer the procedures and roll out the technology again.
My only fear about an electronic voting system is that we need to have something that is simple enough for a new person to take it over and master it within an hour. Our machine will eventually die, and our system administrator will eventually lose interest (or retire), and our software base may change with new people coming along. This is the natural evolution of technology, and so long as we can devise a system that is simple enough to be sustained over a period of 20 years, I think it has potential benefits.
Kevin McCurley
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