2016-09-29 14:53 GMT+02:00 mick mbm@rlogin.net:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:05:33 -0700 Sadia Afroz sadia@icsi.berkeley.edu allegedly wrote:
We did not publish the report anywhere. I put it up on my site just for the ease of sharing it in the mailing list.
Sadia
With respect, those two statements are mutually contradictory. Placing the report on-line /anywhere/ constitutes publication. And since the report is widely reachable it will by now have been cached by search engines.
mick,
You are correct in a sense. On the another hand in academia until a work is published in a peer-reviewed conference or journal it does not really count (you make like this or not, but this is another issue) and/or it would be evident that it is a work in progress.
Moritz mentioned a possible problem with the press misinterpreting the results of this report: I would expect that a _bona fide_ journalist that is able to find such a report on the website of a research would also know that these are preliminary results. I would also expect such a journalist to reach out to the authors for comments. If not, let's say that against ignorance or malice you can not do much (even with a completed work) and I would not blame the authors for the deficiencies of others.
That said, I do not see any other way to make this work reachable so that the authors can talk about their preliminary results with as many people as possible - and the "tor community" at large. The alternative would be to select a closed group of people with whom to share the report.
Being a fan of "release early, release often" I prefer the current alternative.
Cristian