ndss-camera-ready

NDSS Camera-Ready

Acceptance at NDSS produces a paper the whole world reads for free: proceedings and talk

videos are open access under the Internet Society, with no reader paywall and authors free

to self-post. The camera-ready is therefore a public artifact, not an archival formality —

and for many papers it must first discharge a revision condition. The 2027 camera-ready

deadline is January 6, 2027 (CFP, checked 2026-07-08).

First, clear the decision's conditions

| Decision | Precondition to camera-ready |

| --- | --- |

| Accept | None — proceed to the checklist |

| Minor Revision | Make exactly the requested changes; a shepherd or the chairs confirm they are satisfactory |

| Major Revision (now accepted) | The re-review already judged the revision-task list fulfilled; carry those changes into the final version faithfully — do not quietly walk any of them back |

Treat any shepherd or revision-task list as binding text. Diff your final PDF against the

committed changes item by item; a reviewer who wrote a task will look for it in the

published paper, and its absence is the failure mode that follows a paper into print.

De-anonymize deliberately

Submission was double-blind; the camera-ready reverses it, and reversal is where mistakes

enter:

• Add authors, affiliations, ORCIDs, and acknowledgments/funding in the template's fields.
• Restore the disclosure specifics that anonymity forced you to blur: real vendor names,

CVE identifiers, advisory URLs, coordinated-disclosure dates. The open-access paper is

part of the public disclosure record — get these exact.

• Replace anonymized artifact links with the archival DOI (see ndss-artifact-evaluation).
• Restore internal system/tool names, cited correctly.
• Verify every reference now that self-citation can be first-person and complete.

Add earned artifact badges

If artifact evaluation passed, place the earned badges (Available / Functional / Reproduced)

on the first page using the provided badge style (ndssbadges.sty in the 2026 tooling) and

add the 2-page artifact appendix. Badges you did not earn do not appear — the committee's

report is the source of truth, not your ambition.

Final production checklist

[ ] Revision/shepherd conditions all discharged (item-by-item diff)
[ ] Current NDSS camera-ready template; body still within the limit after de-anon growth
[ ] Authors, affiliations, ORCIDs, acknowledgments, funding present and correct
[ ] Disclosure specifics restored and accurate (vendors, CVEs, dates, advisories)
[ ] Ethics Considerations section retained and consistent with the published claims
[ ] Artifact badges placed (if earned) + 2-page artifact appendix added
[ ] References complete; DOIs where available; self-citations de-anonymized
[ ] Fonts embedded; PDF compiles clean on another machine; metadata now correct
[ ] Copyright/publication forms submitted per Internet Society instructions
[ ] Presenter identified; Seoul registration and travel underway (visas!)

The open-access consequence

Because there is no paywall between your paper and the field, two things follow. First,

errors are permanent and public — the timeline, the vendor name, the availability

statement will be read by the affected vendors and by future citers. Second, self-archiving

is explicitly permitted, so post the camera-ready on your own pages and repositories once

proceedings publish; there is no embargo to wait out.

Present in Seoul

NDSS 2027 meets in Seoul, 22-26 March 2027 — the venue's first move off its long San Diego

February footing. Confirm attendance/presentation requirements on the current logistics

page (registration opened October 2026), and plan the talk for a room that will read the

free paper afterward: lead with the adversary and the finding, not the related work.

Output format

[Conditions] revision/shepherd items — each discharged? outstanding listed
[De-anonymization] authors / disclosure specifics / artifact link / tool names — done or gaps
[Badges] earned set placed? artifact appendix added?
[Production] checklist failures blocking submission
[Logistics] presenter, registration, visa lead time