[TYPES/announce] reviewing, conference presentations, conference vs journal publications

[Deepak Kapur]

I applaud the POPL SC for making a proposal to make reviewing fairer, 
which I support. I am also supportive of increasing the number of 
accepted papers.

But that is not the reason for making my first post on this list.

How about the seemingly radical idea of allowing almost all 
submissions/abstracts to be presented at prestigious CS conferences 
including POPL, a tradition that has been successfully practiced (I 
hope) by almost all other disciplines including physics, mathematics, 
economics, etc., but appears to be so foreign and unacceptable to most 
of us?

Everything else ---- rebuttals, resubmissions, quality, quantity, and 
what not, can be left for journals, where of course, the reviewing 
process has to be expedited much like the conference reviewing for which 
we all are (perhaps reluctantly) willing to abide by deadlines.

My 2 cents.

Deepak