--- name: nsdi-camera-ready description: Use when converting an NSDI acceptance into a published, presented paper — de-anonymizing within the same 12-page cap, meeting the final-papers deadline that also gates Community Award eligibility, designating the presenter, and landing in USENIX's open-access proceedings for the May symposium. --- # NSDI Camera-Ready Acceptance starts a production pipeline with several deliverables owned by different people — the final PDF, the public artifact, the presenter designation, and the trip to the symposium. Facts below reflect the NSDI '26/'27 pages rendered on 2026-07-08; the '27 final-paper dates were not yet posted (待核实), so anchor every date to the notification email and the authors' instructions it links. ## Deliverables and owners | Deliverable | Owner to assign | Hard constraint | |---|---|---| | Final PDF | writing lead | same 12-page cap as submission | | Public artifact release | artifact lead | before final-papers date for award eligibility | | Production/copyright forms | corresponding author | per the authors' instructions | | Presenter designation | presenting co-author | via the co-chairs' Presenter Information form | | Travel, visa, registration | presenter | May 11-13, 2027, Providence, RI | Assign these on notification day. Cohort timing matters here: a spring acceptance (notified July) has months of runway before the May symposium, while a fall acceptance (notified December) runs its production pipeline much closer to the event — same deliverables, tighter interleaving. ## The final PDF NSDI's cap is symmetric: **final papers, like submissions, are limited to 12 pages including footnotes, figures, and tables**, references and appendices beyond. There is no accepted-paper page bonus to spend, so camera-ready editing is substitution, not addition: - **De-anonymize:** real names, affiliations, acknowledgments, funding — all inside the same 12 pages the anonymous version used, which usually costs a few lines; reclaim them from prose, not from evidence. - **Restore what blinding distorted:** research-track papers that neutralized deployment context ("a large provider") may now name it — verify employer/legal sign-off on every restored detail, since this step is where confidentiality incidents happen. - **Real links replace anonymized ones:** repository, DOI'd archive, dataset pages — consistent with what the artifact ships (`nsdi-artifact-evaluation`). - **Honor the revision record:** for papers accepted via one-shot revision, confirm every change promised in the change memo survived into the final text; shipping a final that quietly reverts a required fix betrays the reviewers who accepted on those terms. - Then re-verify the page count — de-anonymization and shepherd-requested edits both nudge layout. ## One deadline, two prizes The **final-papers deadline** carries double weight at NSDI: it is the production cutoff, and it is the **Community Award eligibility line** — the award goes to the best paper whose code and/or dataset is public by that date. Sequence accordingly: 1. Public release of the artifact repository/archive (with license and DOI) *before* the final-papers date. 2. Final PDF cites those live, permanent URLs. 3. Artifact-badge evaluation proceeds on its own schedule; badge outcomes do not retroactively fix a missed release date. ## Presenter and symposium duties - Accepted papers **designate one co-author as presenter** via the Presenter Information form the program co-chairs distribute. Decide early — visa timelines for a US venue (Providence, RI for May 11-13, 2027) run months, and the presenter should ideally be the person who can answer testbed questions. - Registration requirements, speaker discounts, and remote-presentation options for '27 are 待核实 — read the instructions-for-presenters page of the current edition rather than assuming either flexibility or rigidity. - Spring-cohort papers surface on the public accepted-papers list well before the event; coordinate any press/blog timing with your institution against the venue's publication schedule, not against the symposium date alone. ## Open access, and what it changes USENIX proceedings are open access: the final PDF becomes a permanently free download on `usenix.org`, joining a record where every prior NSDI paper is equally free. Practical consequences: - No paywalled-version hedging — the `usenix.org` PDF is the canonical citation target; sync any arXiv/preprint copy to the final text or clearly mark it stale. - The paper will be read far outside the reviewing community (operators, OSS users, hiring committees); the abstract and figure captions carry more weight than at paywalled venues. - Slides and talk materials commonly join the presentation page; treat them as part of the paper's permanent public footprint. ## Production checklist ```text [ ] Authors/affiliations restored; ORCID/name spellings confirmed by each coauthor [ ] Acknowledgments + funding numbers complete (grant offices care) [ ] 12-page cap re-verified after de-anonymization [ ] Employer/legal sign-off on restored deployment details [ ] Revision-memo promises intact in final text [ ] Artifact public with license + DOI before final-papers date (award clock) [ ] All URLs in the PDF resolve and are permanent [ ] Copyright/production forms submitted per authors' instructions [ ] Presenter designated via the form; travel/visa started [ ] Metadata (title/abstract) identical across HotCRP, PDF, and artifact README ``` ## After the symposium The paper's public life is just beginning: keep the artifact's pinned dependencies buildable for at least the horizon on which one-shot-revision reviewers and follow-up work will consult it; route errata through the venue's published correction channel rather than silently editing preprint copies; and archive the talk recording/slides link alongside the repository README so the three public faces of the work — PDF, artifact, talk — reference each other. ## Output format ```text [Deadline map] final-papers date + form dates (from notification email) [PDF status] de-anonymized / cap verified / links live / memo honored [Award clock] artifact public before final-papers date? y/n + date [Presenter] designated? visa/travel risk level [Open-access sync] preprint copies reconciled with canonical PDF [Open items] owner -> item -> due date ```