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imc-writing-style

Use when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable, longitudinal framing for a moving Internet, arguing limitations rather than reciting them, writing the Ethics section early, and acmart page-budget discipline.

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# IMC Writing Style

Use this while drafting the body. IMC reviewers are measurement experts who read for **what you
learned about the real Internet and whether the data support it**. The organizing principle is
that the paper is a *measurement* contribution: the finding leads, the vantage points and method
are auditable, and the limitations and ethics are visible from the start — not appended.

## The first-page arc

Put the measurement finding on the first page, in this shape:

1. **A question about the real Internet** a practitioner or researcher recognizes ("how reachable
   / how deployed / how secure / how does X behave in the wild?").
2. **Why current knowledge is inadequate** — prior work measured too few vantage points, a single