This October 2023 issue contains three editorial notes.

The observing reader of CCR will have noticed that there is no July 2023 issue. There are three main factors at play here. Given the timing of our SIGCOMM conferences, summer is a low period for submissions to CCR. Then, as CCR is selective and its scope limited to timely works relevant to our community, few technical papers make it above our bar. Finally, I have witnessed a healthy shift away from technical papers towards more thought-provoking editorials over the last few years. We have enough conference and journals for technical papers to find an appropriate venue. On the other hand, our conferences and journals, due to their selective nature and the overly critical nature of the reviewing process, do not lend themselves to welcome thought-provoking and contentious contributions. Let CCR be their home.

The first editorial note, On Integrating eBPF into Pluginized Protocols, by Quentin De Coninck, Louis Navarre, and Nicolas Rybowski, considers the case of pluginized protocols, by leveraging eBPF outside of the Linux kernel environment. The second editorial note, The I/O Driven Server: From SmartNICs to Data Movement Controllers, by Justine Sherry, explores the position of SmartNICs in the overall system integration of datacenter servers at the hardware and software level. The third editorial note, Can We Save The Public Internet?, by Marjory Blumenthal, Ramesh Govindan, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy, James McCauley, Nick Merrill, Tejas Narechania, Aurojit Panda, and Scott Shenker, explains why recent developments in the Internet’s infrastructure are problematic, and how we could prevent an evolution of the Internet that impedes on its original design principles and goals.

I hope that you will enjoy reading this new issue and welcome comments and suggestions on CCR Online (https://ccronline.sigcomm.org) or by email at ccr-editor at sigcomm.org.