Researchers often talk about specific technical trends or research topics. But we rarely talk about how and why we do the research that we do. The process of submitting and reviewing papers puts our ideas through a particular kind of filter that may make all of the research seem like it follows some standard rubric, a SIGCOMM Normal Form if you will. During a panel at HotNets'21, five researchers---Hari Balakrishnan, Jon Crowcroft, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, and David Tennenhouse---each answered three questions about how they pick their own research topics, what areas they would like to see more research on, and how they evaluate conference papers. Due to the unexpectedly positive response to that panel, CCR will be publishing a series of answers to these three questions, starting with two participants from the panel but reaching out to others to provide answers from a broader cross-section of the SIGCOMM community.

研究人员经常谈论具体的技术趋势或研究课题。但我们很少谈论我们如何以及为什么进行我们所做的研究。提交和审查论文的过程使我们的想法通过一种特殊的过滤器，这可能使所有的研究看起来都遵循一些标准的规则，如果你愿意的话，一个 SIGCOMM 范式。在 HotNets'21 的一个小组讨论中，五位研究人员——Hari Balakrishnan、Jon Crowcroft、Jennifer Rexford、Scott Shenker 和 David Tennenhouse——分别回答了三个问题，关于他们如何选择自己的研究主题，他们想从事哪些领域查看更多研究，以及他们如何评估会议论文。由于该小组出人意料的积极回应，CCR 将发布这三个问题的一系列答案，