In this short essay, I ask whether our current practice of highly selective conferences is helping us achieve SIGCOMM's research goals.¹ This requires first articulating what those goals are, and then evaluating our practices in relation to those goals. To no one's surprise, this essay contends that there is a significant mismatch between what I believe SIGCOMM's goals should be and what our current practices achieve. I then propose a radical restructuring of our conferences that would provide better alignment and, as an additional benefit, a stronger sense of community. However, I wrote this essay not to promote the specifics of a particular proposal, but to encourage our community to (i) engage in a thorough reexamination of how we organize SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences and (ii) seriously entertain the possibility of radical changes in our practices.

在这篇短文中，我询问我们目前的高度选择性会议的做法是否有助于我们实现 SIGCOMM 的研究目标。^1个这需要首先阐明这些目标是什么，然后评估我们与这些目标相关的实践。不出所料，这篇文章认为，我认为 SIGCOMM 的目标应该与我们目前的实践所实现的目标之间存在重大不匹配。然后，我提议对我们的会议进行彻底重组，以提供更好的一致性，并作为额外的好处，增强社区意识。然而，我写这篇文章并不是为了宣传某个特定提案的细节，而是为了鼓励我们的社区 (i) 对我们如何组织 SIGCOMM 赞助的会议进行彻底的重新审查，以及 (ii) 认真考虑彻底改变的可能性我们的做法。