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name: infocom-camera-ready description: Use when preparing an accepted IEEE INFOCOM paper for its IEEE Xplore camera-ready, covering de-anonymization, the IEEEtran final format and page budget, the IEEE electronic Copyright Form (eCF), PDF eXpress validation, the author-registration requirement, integrating reviewer-required changes without scope creep, and permanentizing any released artifact links.

INFOCOM Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. INFOCOM papers publish in the IEEE INFOCOM Proceedings and IEEE Xplore, so the camera-ready is an IEEE production step with hard mechanical gates: the IEEE electronic Copyright Form (eCF) and PDF eXpress validation, plus an author-registration requirement. Reopen the current Final Paper Submission Guidelines, the decision email, and the registration page before advising (INFOCOM 2026 final paper: 9 Jan 2026, US ET).

Camera-ready audit

• De-anonymize completely: restore the author block, affiliations, ORCIDs, acknowledgements, funding/grant numbers, and the real tool/testbed/repository names that double-blind forced you to hide.
• Apply the final IEEEtran format within the page budget (10 pages max, ≤9 of text incl. appendices) and any camera-ready page allowance the acceptance letter states — INFOCOM sometimes permits a purchased extra page; confirm per cycle.
• Complete the IEEE eCF: submit the electronic copyright transfer; EDAS auto-directs you to the eCF site. The correct IEEE copyright notice must appear on the first page of the final PDF.
• Pass PDF eXpress: run the final PDF through IEEE PDF eXpress to produce an Xplore-compliant file, then upload it to EDAS. A PDF that fails PDF eXpress is not published.
• Meet the author-registration rule: at least one author must register for the main conference as an author; one registration covers up to three main-conference papers (verify the current cycle's exact ratio).
• Integrate reviewer-required changes from the reviews faithfully — without strengthening claims beyond what was evaluated.
• Permanentize any release: if you released an artifact, replace any anonymized link with a public, licensed, DOI-issuing archive and update the paper to point at it.

De-anonymization sweep

Anonymized at submission	Restore at camera-ready	Watch for
Author block, affiliations, ORCID	Full, correctly ordered	Wrong order breaks the Xplore citation
Tool / testbed / system name	Real name throughout text, figures, release	A leftover placeholder in a caption
Acknowledgements, funding	Restored	Grant numbers required by funders
Self-citations (third person)	Natural first-person where it aids clarity	Over-correcting into double-citation
Anonymized artifact link	Public archive DOI	The old anonymized URL surviving in a footnote

IEEE Xplore production checks

[Template]   IEEEtran, correct preamble; no manual margin/font edits; within the page budget
[eCF]        IEEE electronic copyright form completed via EDAS; correct notice on page 1
[PDF eXpress] final PDF validated through IEEE PDF eXpress and uploaded to EDAS
[Registration] at least one author registered; covers this paper (and up to two more)
[Metadata]   title, authors+ORCID, abstract, and indexing terms match the final PDF in EDAS
[References] complete and consistent; DOIs where available; within the reference allowance
[Figures]    vector where possible; readable in print; captions self-contained
[Links]      any artifact/data link resolves from a logged-out browser

Worked example: integrating a required change

The reviewers required tuning a baseline and stating an assumption's limit. Camera-ready move: report the re-tuned baseline's numbers in the existing results table, add one sentence in the system model justifying the assumption and one in the limits paragraph bounding it, restore the real simulator/tool name throughout, and point any released package at its now-public DOI archive — without expanding the claim the TPC accepted.

Hedged logistics

• The camera-ready date, any purchased-extra-page allowance, the registration-to-papers ratio, and eCF/PDF eXpress mechanics change each cycle; confirm against the decision email and the current Final Paper Submission Guidelines rather than a prior year.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] ready / needs fixes / blocked
[De-anonymization] author block / tool name / acks / links restored? yes/no
[IEEE gates] eCF complete? PDF eXpress passed? author registered? yes/no
[Reviewer-change map] <required change -> final edit, no scope creep>
[Release] anonymized link replaced by DOI archive? yes/no/na
[Remaining owner] <person -> task before the final-paper deadline>