Starting with the January 2006 issue, the publication policy of the
Operating System Review is changing. In particular, each issue will be
organized around a theme and submissions will be solicited for that
theme. Guest editors will often be chosen to solicit and review
submissions for a special topics issue.  We are interested in having a
broad range of special topics reflecting both academic and industrial
interests. Please send suggestions for special topics issues to the
OSR editor, Jeanna Matthews (jnm@clarkson.edu).

The first special topics issue will be related to PlanetLab and Marc
Fiuczynski (mef@cs.princeton.edu) will the guest editor.  For this
issue, we seek submissions on all aspects related to PlanetLab.
Topics of interest, but not limited to, include:

- Mature long-running services currently operating on PlanetLab

- Management tools that ease the deployment of PlanetLab slices

- Network measurement tools

- Infrastructure services

- Debugging and monitoring related to PlanetLab

- Resource management, discovery, etc.

Papers will be evaluated by a review committee.  The primary criteria
for acceptance will be clarity of explanation and relationship to
PlanetLab. This special issue does not have a predefined format or a
target number of accepted papers, but there is a soft cap of roughly
84 pages of text devoted to papers.  Papers should be double column
including figures and tables in standard ACM format and submitted in
printable postscript or pdf.

If you are interested in submitting to this issue of OSR, please send
email to mef@cs.princeton.edu with a brief description of your
submission by November 1st 2005. The final submission will be due
November 15 2005.