conext-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's two-cycles-per-year calendar and PACMNET journal-style fit to choose the venue and the cycle by contribution shape and evidence maturity.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill conext-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# CoNEXT Topic Selection Decide the venue *and the cycle* before drafting. CoNEXT — the ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM — is a broad systems-and-measurement networking venue whose research papers are **PACMNET** journal articles. Reviewers read for a **durable networking contribution evaluated on the real target** (a testbed, deployment, or trace), not a one-conference result. A technically strong paper whose real lesson is about pure theory, pure ML, or a non-networking system is respected and then rejected as out of scope. ## The two routing questions that matter most Networking has several strong flagships with overlapping scope, so ask two things: 1. **Which networking community and rigor bar fits this contribution?** (CoNEXT vs. SIGCOMM/NSDI/ IMC/SIGMETRICS/MobiCom.) 2. **Which of CoNEXT's two cycles is the nearest honest deadline my evidence is ready for?** (December vs. June — a real lever unique to CoNEXT.) A strong paper is often publishable at more than one venue; the nearer honest deadline and the best community fit usually win. ## Sibling-venue routing table | Signal in your project | Better home
- The two routing questions that matter most
- Sibling-venue routing table
- Contribution shapes CoNEXT rewards
- The platform-realism and re-label tests
- The model-swap test (for ML-for-networking papers)
- Evidence maturity, without the ladder cliché
- Cheap reconnaissance before committing
- Decision procedure
What does the conext-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's two-cycles-per-year calendar and PACMNET journal-style fit to choose the venue and the cycle by contribution shape and evidence maturity.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill conext-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.