I've been waiting for this CFP with great excitement and will be submitting for sure! Thanks, Collin. :-)
NK On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Collin Anderson <[email protected] > wrote: > Colleagues, > > Libtech receives a fair number of call for papers on conferences and > journals every month, however, I wanted to direct special attention to > the Free and Open Communications on the Internet Workshop at USENIX, being > held in Washington, D.C. on August 13 this year. Participating in the first > FOCI was a pretty great opportunity personally and I am hopeful that the > location this time will help better connect researchers and the policy > process that takes place locally. Please, submit, participate and attend! > > https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci13/call-for-papers > > Cordially, > Collin > > --- > > Overview > The 3rd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet > (FOCI '13) seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from > technology, law, and policy who are working on means to study, detect, or > circumvent practices that inhibit free and open communications on the > Internet. > > Internet communications drive political and social change around the > world. Governments and other actors seek to control, monitor, and block > Internet communications for a variety of reasons, ranging from extending > copyright law to suppressing free speech and assembly. Methods for > controlling what content people post and view online are also multifarious. > Whether it's traffic throttling by ISPs or man-in-the-middle attacks by > countries seeking to identify those who are organizing protests, threats to > free and open communications on the Internet must be addressed by the > research community in an interdisciplinary way that includes both policy > and technology. > > Topics > We encourage submission of new, interesting work on a wide variety of > topics of interest, including but in no way limited to the following areas: > > Evaluation or analysis of existing anti-censorship systems > Comparisons of existing tools that might be used to detect tampering, > blocking, or violations of net neutrality > Studies and findings on real-world censorship or tampering from field > deployments or other methods, such as the topics or content censored by > states or the extent to which ISPs are degrading certain types of content > or service > Metrics and benchmarks for content tampering or performance degradation > Detection, measuring, and analysis of the censorship of search results > Design of network protocols and topologies that resist tampering or > censorship > Techniques to counter mass surveillance or its effects > The role of private corporations in spreading or enabling surveillance and > censorship > Capabilities of deep packet inspection (DPI) and robust mechanisms to > circumvent DPI > Capabilities and constraints of censorship technologies > Legality of censorship-resistant systems or bypassing censorship > Economic considerations in the design and deployment of censorship or > censorship-resistant tools > Analysis of the economic impact of censorship > Usability in censorship-resistant systems > Effects of censorship on individuals, society, business, or political > processes > We emphasize that this workshop seeks to draw submissions from a range of > disciplines. As such, non-technical work that examines the wider > implications of censorship and its effects will be considered favorably. > > What to Submit > We invite two distinct tracks for papers: a technical track for > technically-focused position papers or works-in-progress; and a social > science track for papers focused on policy, law, regulation, economics or > related fields of study. > > FOCI will favor interesting and new ideas and early results that lead to > well-founded position papers. We envision that work presented at FOCI will > ultimately be published at relevant, high-quality conferences. Papers will > be selected primarily based on originality, with additional consideration > given to their potential to generate discussion at the workshop. Papers in > the technical track will also be evaluated based on technical merit. > > Submission Guidelines > Technical Track: Submitted papers must be no longer than six 8.5" x 11" > pages, based on the standard USENIX format. References will not count > towards the six-page limit. > > Social Science Track: Submitted papers must be no longer than nine 8.5" x > 11" pages, based on the standard USENIX format, but shorter papers are > encouraged. References will not count towards the nine-page limit. > > The social science track aims to encourage submissions from fields such as > law and political science, where longer articles are traditional. Authors > should not submit technically-focused papers to the social science track in > order to avoid page limits—such papers may be rejected out of hand. > > All papers should be in the standard USENIX format. Specifically, > regarding page limits, your paper should be typeset in two-column format in > 10-point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with a text block no > more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Papers must be submitted via the Web > submission form, which will be available here soon. > > Paper submissions must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous > review: no author names or affiliations may appear on the title page, and > authors should avoid revealing their identities in the text. When referring > to your previous work, do so in the third person, as though it were written > by someone else. Only blind the reference itself in the (unusual) case that > a third-person reference is infeasible. Contact the program co-chairs at > [email protected] if you have any questions. > > Papers that do not comply with the submission requirements, including > length and anonymity, may be rejected without review. > > All accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees > before the workshop. If your paper should not be published prior to the > event, please notify [email protected]. The papers will be available > online to everyone beginning on the day of the workshop, August 13, 2013. > > Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of > previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. > USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, > prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have > committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. > Note, however, that we expect that many papers accepted for FOCI '13 will > eventually be extended as full papers suitable for presentation at future > conferences. Questions? Contact your program co-chairs, > [email protected], or the USENIX office, > [email protected]. > > Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be > considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to > publication on the USENIX FOCI '13 Web site; rejected submissions will be > permanently treated as confidential. > > -- > *Collin David Anderson* > averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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