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fast-review-process

Use when reasoning about how a USENIX FAST submission is evaluated, covering double-blind program-committee review with outside referees, the author-response (rebuttal) period, the Accept / Accept-with-shepherding / One-shot-Revision / Reject decision set, how a one-shot revision differs from a journal R&R and from OSDI/ATC handling, and where author leverage exists.

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# FAST Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. FAST — the USENIX Conference on File and
Storage Technologies — uses the USENIX systems-review machinery: **double-blind** program-committee
review, an **author-response** period, PC **shepherding** for accepted papers, and a **one-shot
revision** track. The most consequential mental shift for authors is understanding that FAST has
*four* outcomes, not two, and that a one-shot revision is a real, bounded second chance — not a soft
accept and not an open-ended journal R&R.

## Process model

- Submission and review run on **HotCRP** (a separate instance per deadline) with **double-blind**
  anonymity: identities are hidden from reviewers; authors anonymize the PDF and references and refer
  to their own prior work in the third person.