I've been talking to the folks at Usenix about a venue for papers
of interest to this group. They've very eager to have such papers
at the LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference.
Timing is tight for this year -- the deadline is in three weeks (
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa04/ ). For those who aren't
familiar with LISA, this is a conference with that publishes
proceedings of refereed papers. The success, of course, depends
on members of this community submitting papers, this year and next
-- that's what will make the conference interesting to this community.
I'm working on a journal, too.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb