On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 5:14 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 01:39:54PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Whoever was running Usenix contacted me after seeing the success of
> Linux Expo and begged me to bring those people to Usenix.  I was offered
> a board seat, I could be reviewer for life, anything I wanted.
>
> All I asked for was blind reviews.  Didn't ask anything for myself, just
> blind reviews so you could be a nobody and get judged on the quaility of
> your work rather than your name.

FAST reviews are blind.  ATC conferences are (as of the last time I
was on an ATC PC a year or two ago) are still not blinded.

Ok, I'll bite: why not? That seems like a no-brainer way to weed out a lot of bias.

        - Dan C.