Re: [Smart] Who's doing the work for SMART ?

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 11 October 2018 16:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Smart] Who's doing the work for SMART ?
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>  I think we can get academia and industry to help and contribute to this
>  work.  The problem is purely PR/Marketing.  We need to raise awareness of
>  this and help make sure the right groups and researchers know about it.

Having been the chair of the late not very lamented ASRG, I have to report 
that getting outside people to put their work into an RG is very 
difficult. Academics will ask if it counts as publishing?  (No.) Industry 
will ask whether this will lead to products and what about the patent 
implications (don't ask.)

I think it's fine to try to spin up this RG, but if we don't have 
identified people who are doing the work, it's not going to be any more 
successful than ASRG was.

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John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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