ndss-submission
GitHub用于NDSS投稿截止前的最终预上传审计。检查HotCRP字段、13页限制、双盲匿名、伦理合规及作者上限等硬性指标，提供拒稿风险排查与修复建议，确保论文顺利提交。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ndss-submission -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "ndss-submission",
"description": "Use when performing the final pre-upload audit of an NDSS submission — HotCRP fields, the AoE deadline, NDSS template and 13-page compliance, double-blind sweep, ethics readiness, the six-per-author cap, overlap rules, and desk-reject triage in the last week."
}
NDSS Submission
This is the deadline-week skill: the paper exists, the cycle is chosen, and the job is to
get it into HotCRP without handing the PC a reason to discard it unread. NDSS 2027's summer
cycle ran through ndss27-summer.hotcrp.com; confirm the fall cycle's own site rather than
assuming the URL pattern (待核实 in this pack's source map).
The clock
Deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere-on-Earth (UTC-12) — the most forgiving timezone, which is exactly why missing it is unforgivable. Fall 2027 cycle: papers due August 19, 2026. Upload a complete candidate PDF a day early; HotCRP allows revision until the deadline, and a placeholder in the system beats a perfect PDF stuck in a build error at 11:58.
Hard-gate audit (any failure = fix before upload)
- Template: current NDSS template, unmodified — no geometry, spacing, or font surgery.
- Length: ≤13 pages of body; Ethics Considerations, references, and appendices sit outside the count and behind the body/ethics/references order the CFP prescribes.
- Language: English; PDF compiles on someone else's machine, fonts embedded.
- Anonymity (double-blind, per the 2027 CFP):
- no author names/affiliations anywhere, including headers and the PDF's metadata
(
pdfinfo; check Author, Creator, and attached-file fields); - self-citations in third person; no "our earlier system [12]";
- acknowledgments, grant numbers, and lab codenames removed;
- artifact links point at anonymized hosting, not institutional GitLab;
- figures and screenshots checked for usernames, hostnames, watermarks.
- no author names/affiliations anywhere, including headers and the PDF's metadata
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- Ethics readiness: if the work touches live systems, users, or vulnerabilities — the Ethics Considerations section exists, the disclosure state is described truthfully, and the paper can face the Ethics Review Board as-is. IRB paperwork alone is not the answer the venue accepts.
- Cap and overlap: every coauthor is on ≤6 submissions this cycle (12/year), and this paper does not majorly overlap a paper rejected in this symposium's earlier cycle, nor sit simultaneously under review elsewhere.
Desk-reject triage
| Finding in final week | Severity | Move |
|---|---|---|
| Body runs to page 14 | Fatal at deadline | Cut via the dependency test (ndss-supplementary), never via template hacks |
| Metadata shows an author name | Fatal if unseen | Rebuild PDF with scrubbed fields; re-check attachments |
| De-anonymizing repo link | Fatal if unseen | Re-host anonymously; re-grep the whole PDF for URLs |
| Undisclosed overlap with rejected summer paper | Fatal | Withdraw or rewrite scope honestly — reviewers overlap between cycles and remember |
| Ethics section missing for scanning study | Severe | Write it now from the method text; do not submit without it |
| HotCRP topics/conflicts incomplete | Recoverable | Complete before deadline; conflicts protect you |
HotCRP field discipline
Abstract, title, topics, and conflicts steer reviewer assignment — treat them as targeting, not paperwork. The abstract in the form must match the PDF verbatim (mismatches surface at Round 1 and read as sloppiness). Declare conflicts by the CFP's definition, completely: a missed conflict discovered later taints the review; an invented one to dodge a feared reviewer is misconduct. List every coauthor with correct emails at submission — quiet author-list edits after the deadline are a chairs-permission matter at security venues, not an author right.
Final 48 hours, in order
T-48h freeze content; branch the repo (submission tag)
T-36h format pass: template diff, page count, reference/appendix order
T-30h anonymity pass: metadata, links, figures, self-citations, acks
T-24h ethics pass: section present, disclosure statements current TODAY
(a vendor reply yesterday can invalidate a sentence written last week)
T-20h upload candidate PDF to HotCRP; fill all fields; save
T-12h cold read of the compiled-from-HotCRP download (not your local file)
T-2h final re-upload if needed; screenshot the confirmation
After the button
Nothing more is owed until the early-reject notification (fall: September 25, 2026). Use
the gap to pre-draft rebuttal scaffolding (ndss-author-response) and to keep the
disclosure process moving — the interactive discussion phase will ask what happened since
submission, and "the vendor patched in October" is a good answer only if you kept the
process alive.
Output format
[Upload state] candidate in HotCRP? fields complete?
[Hard gates] template / length / anonymity / ethics / cap+overlap — pass or blocker
[Triage] findings mapped to the table above, with owners
[Clock] hours to AoE deadline; next checkpoint
Version History
- 9f86f09 Current 2026-07-19 17:06
