sigcomm-camera-ready

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>