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Evaluation of the conference applications

DB Dmitry Belyavsky Tue 15 Jul 2025 5:17PM Public Seen by 11

Do we have any guidelines for evaluation of the applications? How many of them should be approved?

I've looked through some titles. For me as a technical guy any FIPS-related context would be not of much interest and I would put them some neutral evaluation or probably worth combining to a panel format. The same concerns are about AI which is a hot topic but I don't think it's applicable in crypto area. I also see an application that could be combined with my own application if an author agrees etc.

Having some sort of guidelines would be useful.

IU

Igor Ustinov Thu 17 Jul 2025 1:47PM

I agree with Dmitry; without some guidelines, I can estimate the topics only by considering whether they might be interesting to me, but that is definitely not what we need. I have no idea how to evaluate the quality of proposals based only on these short descriptions. What are our criteria?