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conext-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's two-cycles-per-year calendar and PACMNET journal-style fit to choose the venue and the cycle by contribution shape and evidence maturity.
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# CoNEXT Topic Selection
Decide the venue *and the cycle* before drafting. CoNEXT — the ACM International Conference on
emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM — is a broad
systems-and-measurement networking venue whose research papers are **PACMNET** journal articles.
Reviewers read for a **durable networking contribution evaluated on the real target** (a testbed,
deployment, or trace), not a one-conference result. A technically strong paper whose real lesson is
about pure theory, pure ML, or a non-networking system is respected and then rejected as out of
scope.
## The two routing questions that matter most
Networking has several strong flagships with overlapping scope, so ask two things:
