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Use when deciding whether a systems project is SOSP-shaped — a built and measured artifact embodying an extractable principle in operating and distributed systems — or better routed to OSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, NSDI, FAST, ASPLOS, VLDB, MLSys, or HotOS, and when to make that call in the project's life.

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# SOSP Topic Selection

Use this months before any deadline, when the routing decision is still cheap. SOSP
solicits work on "the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment
of computer systems software" (2026 CFP at `sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2026/cfp.html`,
checked 2026-07-08) — a broad charter that in practice is filtered through one
question: *is there an operating-systems principle here, embodied in something built
and measured?*

## The three-part SOSP shape test

1. **Principle** — an extractable insight that outlives the artifact. Someone should
   be able to apply it while building a different system. "We made X fast" is not a
   principle; "X can be fast because responsibility R can move below interface I"
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