From owner-sigcommex@PASCAL.ACM.ORG Wed Sep 17 05:06:06 1997 Received: from PASCAL.ACM.ORG (PASCAL.ACM.ORG [192.135.174.1]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA15884 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 05:06:05 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: owner-sigcommex@PASCAL.ACM.ORG Received: from mail.acm.org ("port 2744"@mail.acm.org) by PASCAL.ACM.ORG (PMDF V5.1-5 #22743) id <01INQJXICY3400SJKT@PASCAL.ACM.ORG> for dragon@cs.utexas.edu; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 05:05:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.acm.org ("port 2744"@mail.acm.org) by PASCAL.ACM.ORG (PMDF V5.1-5 #22743) with ESMTP id <01INQJUR2M9O00PP4F@PASCAL.ACM.ORG>; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 05:03:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from PASCAL.ACM.ORG ([192.135.174.1]) by mail.acm.org (8.8.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id GAA45598 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 06:08:39 -0400 Received: from PASCAL.ACM.ORG by PASCAL.ACM.ORG (PMDF V5.1-5 #22743) id <01INQJUKKCTS00QILF@PASCAL.ACM.ORG> for SIGCOMMEX-expand@acm.org; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 05:03:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.acm.org ("port 2728"@mail.acm.org) by PASCAL.ACM.ORG (PMDF V5.1-5 #22743) with ESMTP id <01INQJU91A2S00PP4F@PASCAL.ACM.ORG> for sigcommex; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 05:03:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by mail.acm.org (8.8.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id GAA22262 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 06:08:15 -0400 Received: from waffle.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:02:45 +0100 Resent-date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 05:03:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:02:43 +0100 From: Jon Crowcroft Subject: Re: SIGCOMM 98 Vancouver? In-reply-to: "Your message of Thu, 03 Oct 1996 07:51:28 PDT." <"14049*neufeld@cs.ubc.ca"@MHS> To: Gerald Neufeld Cc: "Jonathan M. Smith" (return), gdelp@vnet.ibm.com (return), J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk Cc: sigcommex@acm.org Errors-to: owner-sigcommex@PASCAL.ACM.ORG Resent-message-id: <199709171008.GAA45598@mail.acm.org> Message-id: <1211.874490563@cs.ucl.ac.uk> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Status: OR Gerald some things that just came up in sigcomm97, that we should do for '98 1/ childcare information - we don't have to _do_ anything, but at least finding out what type of minding/babysitting, or clubs are avaialble and making it part of pre-registration information - however, if there _is_ a service we can buy, I am prepared to spend SIG money to help people attend who need such a service 2/ Speaker information - we havnt i nthe past given speaker guidelines, but its clear that some talks this year were marred by poor slides (exception: pouzin's lovely keynote:-) we should (as per IEEE conferences) find some standard info we can send to speakers when we get their final papers, that give typical A/V guidelines (your university may have some yo ucan use - we do....for example -= things like pointsize, no. of lines per slide, size of diagrams/# colors, etc - that sort of stuff!)( 3/ we'd like to make absolutely sure we have the '99 call for papers available at '98 (not your problem, but just for my record!) 4/ exit questionnaires - everyone leaves this to the last second (i did in 94, christophe did til today....etc) - craig did a really nice job at stanford, so we should use that model......we're just trying to get those forms off craig now.... cheers jon From owner-sigcomm98-exec@cs.ubc.ca Thu Oct 9 13:28:04 1997 Received: from grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (grolsch.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.6.9]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21017 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:27:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (8.8.5/8.6.9) id LAA15507 for sigcomm98-exec-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.utexas.edu (root@cs.utexas.edu [128.83.139.9]) by grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA15477 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigbird.cs.utexas.edu (dragon@bigbird.cs.utexas.edu [128.83.143.202]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA12514 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:26:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bigbird.cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/Client-1.5) id NAA21348; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:26:16 -0500 Message-Id: <199710091826.NAA21348@bigbird.cs.utexas.edu> From: "Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan" Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:26:15 -0500 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: sigcomm98-exec@cs.ubc.ca Subject: fyi: feedback on sigcomm97 Precedence: bulk X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Status: Status: OR Christophe Diot just sent out the evaluation summary from the conference questionnaire: On the scale, 5 was positive and 1 was low.... Thanks, Chris # #EVALUATION OF SIGCOMM 97 # #Students : 19 #Academic : 13 #Research : 10 #Industry : 16 # #How did you hear about conference # #Last year's conference : 18 #web : 19 #email : 7 #journal : 2 #direct mail (post) : 2 #Other : freind (2), lab's director, manager, mailing list, general #office # # #Quality of the conference # 1 2 3 4 5 #----------------------------------------------------- #Location 1 0 3 13 43 #Conference facilities 3 4 8 22 22 #Internet access 5 11 12 11 7 #Food 9 14 16 12 9 #Social events 1 3 14 28 11 #Presentations (visu) 3 3 16 27 10 #Presentations (tech) 2 4 9 32 13 #Hotels 1 2 15 17 10 #Local Information 1 1 15 25 14 # #Locations for future years : #Australia (3), USA, Boston, Italia, Paris, Venise, Hawaii (2), Florence, #Beijing, Joannesbourg, Sydney, Europe (3), China, California, Stokholm, #Tierra del fuego, Ibiza, India (2), Cannes, Santa Fee, London, #Anaheim, Oslo, Tokyo. # #>Personal note: there is a corelation between the proposed location and the #>conference evaluation. In particular: #> #>- all those that proposed Asia critized the lack of vegetarian food. #>- most of those that proposed USA critized food and Internet connectivity # #Proposals for next year tutorials : # #Developments in Mobile Data Networks #Join source and channel coding #Routing, IP switching #Policy based management #Quality of service: is it achievable the Internet #Mobility management, wireless networks #IPV6 (2) #Real time comm., QoS #ATM #Multicast # #Comments : # #- Please ensure that no-meet eaters do get something to eat. #- Good Internet connectivity and performance is essential ! #- warm + beaches == GREAT ! Thanks #- access to food was hard, we like to eat on sits #- Great banquet #- Expected better food, facilities and Internet access at a high #profile place like Palais des festivals. #- So, how was I to find out was vegetarian food ? A pathetically #starving graduate student #- Too many simulations and observations without ideas or analysis #- too many talks belaboring the obvious IMHO #- too few terminals for internet access #- Pool session could have been held earlier, so we could plan to go #out for meal after words. Too many presentations were on #performance. It would have been nice to have more variety and more new #ideas. I thought that was the purpose of sigcomm. Also, with so few #papers accepted, accepting two from the same author is unfair to #rejected authors. #- We need more papers about NEW interesting ideas that, while perhaps #not fully developed yet, provide for more interesting talks and #discussions than solutions to small technical problems (there are also #needed, but not in such big guarantities). #- Too much measurement papers, not enough conclusions ! #- The volumteer staff was great ! #- VEGETARIAN FOOD, PLEASE !! #- The problem should be solved one and for all ?? irritating #- The food was high in QUALITY, but actually getting any food was very #hard. The lunches with tiny plates, LONG lines + ??? food left many #of us very hungry. I ended up going grocery shopping so I wouldn't be #so hungry. The banquet had delicious food but was poorly #organized. Nobody at my table knew about the HOT food so we all just #had cold buffet salads. This is a shame. #- with the exception of the banquet, food was sub-starderd #- Good technical content, ok presentations, some poor "french openning #! does not work well ! Buffets at lunch not well done #- Wine and Cheese reception disappointing - full reception. Nice lunch # # #-- #========================================================================== #Christophe Diot | tel. +33 493 65 77 56 #INRIA | fax. +33 493 65 77 65 #2004 route des Lucioles - BP 93 | e.mail christophe.diot@inria.fr #06902 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS cedex | Web page http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/ #FRANCE # #Disclaimer: # #le contenu de ce mail, ainsi que les opinions qui y sont developpees, #n'engagent que moi ... et encore !