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atc-author-response
Use when writing the ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) rebuttal and the shepherd's description-of-changes — the short round-two response that corrects factual misreadings and supplies requested measurements, and the point-by-point revision record a conditional-acceptance shepherd checks before final acceptance.
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# ATC Author Response
ATC gives you two distinct writing moments after review, and they have different jobs. The
**rebuttal** (a short, roughly one-page window during round two) is for correcting misreadings and
supplying a measurement a reviewer said was missing. The **description of changes** (after a
**conditional accept**, for the **shepherd**) is a point-by-point record proving every required
revision was made. Confusing the two — arguing in the shepherd round, or over-promising in the
rebuttal — is the classic failure.
## The rebuttal (round two, ~1 page)
Its job is narrow and its space is tiny, so triage ruthlessly:
- **Correct factual misreadings** first — a reviewer who misread the testbed, the baseline, or the