Acceptance

In the last two weeks of May, and the first two weeks of June, I submitted four conference papers. Each paper was effectively a chapter from my thesis. Over the past week or so, I have been notified that three of the four papers were accepted. So I have been accepted to present papers at:

"DRM Use License Negotiation Using ODRL V2" at the 2007 Virtual Goods Conference sponsored by ODRL and IFIP TC-6, in Koblenz, Germany. This is one of my big contributions of my research work, and one of the longest running components of my thesis. This conference is in mid October.

"Persistent Access Control: A Formal Model for DRM" at the 2007 DRM Workshop at ACM CCS in Washington DC, USA. This is the third successive paper I will be presenting at this conference, and my personal favourite conference. The paper is also one of the cornerstones of my thesis, where I present, as far as I know, the first formal definition for DRM as a form of access control. This conference is in the last week of October, first week of November.

"Experiences in Implementing a Kernel-Level DRM Controller" at the 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution (AXMEDIS) in Barcelona, Spain. This has taken a long time, and is the paper written together with the Marlon Paulse and Duncan Bennett, who implemented this as part of their honours project. The conference as a whole is not really relevant to my work, and am not even sure if I can go for the full conference, since I am supposed to be finishing up my internship around the same time, and there is a limit of time I can take off to go travelling round the world. This conference is on the last three days of November.

As for the paper that was rejected, to be honest it was a very long shot, so I am not too surprised. But, if I did not try, there was a 100% chance of it not being accepted! The paper was submitted to ACM DRM 2007.