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imc-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether an empirical networking project belongs at ACM IMC or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, CoNEXT, PAM, USENIX Security, WWW, or a journal, using the measurement-first test, the dataset/vantage-point lens, the ethics-gate check, and the two-deadline calendar.
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# IMC Topic Selection
Decide the venue before measuring. IMC — the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, sponsored by ACM
SIGCOMM — is the home for work whose contribution is **what it measured about the real Internet and
how**. A technically strong system whose measurement is a supporting evaluation is respected here
and then routed to SIGCOMM or NSDI; a modest technique that reveals something real and new about
the deployed network is IMC-shaped.
## The measurement-first test
Ask: **is the measurement the contribution, or the support?**
- If the paper's lasting value is a **finding about the Internet**, a **dataset/platform**, or a
**measurement methodology**, it is IMC-shaped.