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Use when judging whether a project belongs at NSDI, picking among its research, operational-systems, and frontiers tracks, or re-routing to SIGCOMM, OSDI, SOSP, FAST, or SIGMETRICS — testing the networking-stack contribution, the CFP's out-of-scope lines, and which of the two yearly deadlines to aim at.

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# NSDI Topic Selection

Venue choice at NSDI is a scope question before it is a quality question. The notes
below reflect the NSDI '27 Call for Papers as rendered on 2026-07-08; the scope
paragraph, track list, and exclusions are rewritten each edition, so reread
`usenix.org/conference/nsdi27/call-for-papers` before committing a team to a deadline.

## The scope sentence that decides most cases

The CFP's negative space is unusually explicit. Three families are declared out of
scope regardless of quality:

1. Work with **no contribution to the design of networked systems or the networking
   stack** — a distributed application that merely *uses* the network is not enough.
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