Talk:International Conference on Computer Communications

Were there any subsequent conferences in that series?

The article starts with "The first International Conference on Computer Communications was held October 24–26, 1972 in Washington, DC at the Hilton Washington."

"First" suggests that there were subsequent International Conferences on Computer Communications in that series.

There is a series of International Conferences on Computer Communications, sponsored by the IEEE, starting in 1982, and continuing to the present day. That appears to be a separate series, despite the identical name.

So was the 1972 International Conference on Computer Communications a one-shot, or was it a series? If it was a one-shot, "first" should be removed, as it was the only such conference. If it was a series, what subsequent conferences in that series were held? Guy Harris (talk) 18:22, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

I tried to find a list. Do you have a list ? Anatole-berthe (talk) 19:28, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

As far as I am aware, it was a one-off so I removed "first" from the opening sentence of the article. Whizz40 (talk) 20:25, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

I think this change could confuse readers if they arriving here looking for the IEEE conference. Should there be a disambiguation to a separate article on the conference, eg INFOCOM, or could this article cover both topics? If the latter, should the article primarily be about present-day conference, with the 1972 conference covered in the (pre-) history section, or should the article be more chronological, covering the 1972 conference and then INFOCOM? For now, I'll add a section to the article on INFOCOM and see how it goes. Whizz40 (talk) 10:14, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

As the two conferences appear to share only 1) a name and 2) a general focus on computer communications, there should probably be separate pages for them. If the IEEE conference is generally called just "INFOCOM", it should probably have a page of its own, disambiguated properly from Infocom, e.g. "INFOCOM (conference)" (unless capitalization suffices), with a hatnote in this page pointing people to the INFOCOM page. Guy Harris (talk) 10:22, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Strictly speaking, I agree. However, there are some connections in the form of the key people at the 1972 conference and the 1982 conference. Let me try expanding this article and we can see what it looks like. It may make a more interesting article for readers that is reasonable to form a single topic/article on Wikipedia (e.g., to avoid readers having to go back and forth between two article to assimilate the history). Whizz40 (talk) 11:11, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

In addition, it was held 10 years after the 1972 conference and adopted the same name, neither of which may have been a coincidence, i.e., reinforcing the connection that these are related subjects. Whizz40 (talk) 11:16, 12 April 2026 (UTC)