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Hi, Christopher, if a paper does not get resubmitted to an IACR venue it doesn\'t imply that it\'s not going to be resubmitted at other venues where IACR members are on the program committee and have to spend time reviewing the re-submission. Depending on how it is crafted, the resubmission policy might just end up shifting the workloads around. Also, Dan raises a valid question: What exactly is a resubmission? How much does a rejected paper have to change to be a new submission? From the CHES community I heard rumors that they\'re considering an journal of their own but instead of papers people have to submit extended abstracts and reviewers act more or less as shepherds. I\'m not sure whether this makes more sense or not, just wanted to point out that there are more possibilities. And that both halfs of IACR are leading very similar discussion in parallel (as far as I can see it). A friend of mine who is doing solid state physics was just complaining about stupid reviewers a week ago and the way he described their model, it sounded quite like the proposed proceedings of the IACR. I reckon that there will never be a perfect system and that quite a lot depends on the little details for each system and the degree of flexibility they offer. What I\'d truly like to see is a more scientific debate about it. Right now, we have suggestions, examples and hypotheses but no hard data, not even a detailed comparison of two or three submission models that are currently used by other disciplines (of similar size) who are reasonably happy with their system. Please don\'t get me wrong, I see the need to "grow up" and the suggestions, examples and hypotheses that I\'ve seen so far all make valid points but all that I see emerging from it is that it\'s not simple. Maybe it would be useful to get outside support from people who do metascience. (I\'m sure that someone\'s doing just that. What else do we have social scientists for?) Cheers, Simon Hoerder From: 2013-18-06 08:52:59 (UTC)