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We had 14 submissions for this issue and accepted 2. We are still much below the acceptance rate that we would like to achieve, even when averaging on two or three issues. I can observe a significant increase in the quality and innovation of the papers submitted though. However, because of the very short turn-around (there is generally less than one week to revise papers), we have to reject papers because the work requested by the reviewers is not feasible in such a short time period. We have also received much fewer comments that we would expect. We would love to receive your feedback on the CCR content. Maybe the online CCR community will make is easier (see the end of this editorial).One of the fourteen papers was withdrawn two weeks before notification. We (the editorial board) suspect a beautiful specimen of double submission. So, we take this opportunity to refresh our readers' mind: double submission is not only unethical and forbidden; it is showing very little respect for those who spend time processing and reviewing papers. There are enough publications opportunities these days. No need to submit in parallel unless you have more confidence in the law of large numbers than in the quality of your work to get your papers accepted :-) This issue contains the usual columns. Matthias Grossglauser is offering us his 10 recommended readings, focusing on modeling papers. Do not miss Michalis Faloutsos article, as well as the now usual SIGCOMM community news.You know that CCR is dedicated to bring you the hottest ideas and innovation. Therefore, we are proud to publish the first fully automatically generated paper. The generation tool has been designed by Christian Kreibich and Jon Crowcroft from Cambridge University. As you will see, the result is not perfect, but close. Jon is confident that the tool can bring him a Sigcomm paper within a couple of years. Then, it will be time to automate the reviewing process ...We also re-publish the paper that received this year's test-of-time award. It has been granted to Vern Paxson for "End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet," published 10 years ago in SIGCOMM.The CCR online community is currently being stress-tested. It should be available from http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/ccr/ by the time you read this editorial. Please connect, add content, and send us comments. It is still a prototype and needs improvement. However, improvement will come from you. We can not really do more than what we have now. And please join me to congratulate again Ernst Biersack and Moritz Steiner, from EURECOM (Sophia-Antipolis, FRANCE), for having designed CCR-online.