thedixitjain SIGCOMM Camera Ready
Use this after acceptance. Reopen the current camera-ready instructions, the ACM TAPS requirements, and your shepherd's HotCRP thread before finalizing; the 2026 cycle set the camera-ready deadline at July 3, 2026, 23:59 UTC, with the final version approved by the shepherd via a HotCRP comment.
Clear the shepherd first
At SIGCOMM the shepherd gates the final version. Before you polish anything:
- Map each review and meta-review concern to a concrete edit and confirm the mapping with the shepherd through HotCRP comments — do not assume silence is approval.
- The shepherd also approves whether any appendix is necessary; be ready to justify each appendix or fold it into the body, and expect to remove one that is not load-bearing.
- Do not strengthen the accepted contribution into something reviewers never evaluated; camera-ready is clarification and integration, not a new result.
De-anonymization sweep
| Anonymized in submission | Restored for camera-ready |
|---|---|
| Author names, affiliations, ORCIDs | Full author block in ACM metadata and PDF |
| Acknowledgments and funding | Restored, spelled out |
| Deployment / system / company names | Real names where the paper's honesty needs them |
| Anonymized artifact links | Public, licensed, citable archive with a DOI |
| Third-person self-citation | Natural first-person where it improves clarity |
Test every restored link from a logged-out browser, and confirm the artifact archive is the one the paper actually points to.
ACM two-column reflow
Switching acmart from the review to the final mode changes spacing, and adding the author
block, acknowledgments, and funding lines consumes room the anonymous draft did not use.
Recheck every page break, figure placement, and wide table after the flip; multi-panel
measurement plots and full-width topology figures are the usual overflow culprits. Keep
section, theorem-if-any, and equation numbering stable so the review record stays traceable
to the final text.
The TAPS pipeline
SIGCOMM finals go through the ACM Publishing System, which regenerates the PDF from your source, so local-only PDF tweaks will not survive:
# TAPS-facing checklist
[ ] Upload BOTH the final PDF and the complete LaTeX/Word source to HotCRP
[ ] acmart.cls (or ACM Word template), unmodified class options
[ ] Correct ACM rights/CCS concepts and keywords entered
[ ] All fonts embedded; figures at publication resolution
[ ] References complete with DOIs; artifact/DOI links live
[ ] Shepherd HotCRP comment recording final-version approval
Fix problems in the source, recompile, and re-check the TAPS-produced PDF rather than editing the PDF by hand.
Release the artifact on its own clock
Artifact evaluation and badge assignment run on a separate schedule from the paper deadline.
Once anonymity no longer applies, publish the code, traces, topologies, and configuration to
a permanent archive with a DOI, and submit to the artifact-evaluation committee for the
badges you can honestly support (see sigcomm-artifact-evaluation). A public artifact by the
badge deadline is also what makes a paper eligible for the reproducibility recognition the
venue prizes.
Output format
[Camera-ready status] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked
[Shepherd] concerns mapped, appendix necessity, HotCRP approval — status
[Final package] TAPS PDF + source / acmart / rights / fonts / references
[De-anonymization] authors / funding / deployment names / artifact links
[Artifact] public archive + DOI + AEC submission — status
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills → SIGCOMM-Skills/skills/sigcomm-camera-ready/SKILL.md