Popl supplementary

POPL Supplementary Material

A POPL submission is really three documents: 25 pages of text (bibliography excluded) that must carry the whole argument, an appendix of full proofs and auxiliary definitions, and — usually — an anonymized proof development or prototype. Reviewers are typically expected to judge the paper from the body alone, so the split is an argumentation decision, not a storage decision. Format and anonymity rules per the POPL 2027 call, read 2026-07-08; confirm the current cycle's supplement wording before uploading.

What lives where

Content	Body (25 pp)	Appendix	Anonymous artifact
Main definitions, typing/semantics rules actually discussed	yes	mirrored in full	formalized
Main theorem statements + proof sketches	yes	full proofs	checked statements
Auxiliary lemmas, weakening/substitution boilerplate	no	yes	yes
Full figure of every judgment (all rules)	representative rules only	complete figure	source of truth
Extended examples, failed design alternatives	one motivating example	yes	test files
Proof scripts, build instructions	no	no	yes, with README

Two disciplines make the split safe:

• The body must stand alone. A reviewer who never opens the appendix should still believe the theorem plausible from the sketch: state the invariant, the hard case, and why it goes through. "Proof in appendix" after an unexplained claim reads as a gap.
• Sketch and proof must not disagree. The classic incident: the body's sketch describes induction on typing derivations while the appendix inducts on evaluation steps because the proof changed. Reviewers who notice stop trusting both.

Anonymizing a proof development

Full double-blind covers everything you upload. Proof repositories are leaky: _CoqProject paths with usernames, lakefile package names matching a public GitHub project, author headers auto-inserted by editors, and .git directories with full commit history. Build the archive from an export, never from a working tree:

git archive --format=tar.gz -o /tmp/supp.tar.gz HEAD          # no .git, no untracked junk
tar tzf /tmp/supp.tar.gz | grep -iE '\.git|/home/|users/|TODO|AUTHORS' && echo LEAK
grep -rInE '(Copyright|Author|@[a-z]+\.(edu|org|fr|de))' \
  --include='*.v' --include='*.lean' --include='*.agda' extracted/ | head

Also rename the development if its public name is googleable to your group, and strip institutional CI configuration.

Version-lock the trio

• Tag the exact commit that generated the submitted PDF, appendix, and archive; the author response will need to quote them line-precisely months later.
• If the appendix is a separate PDF, give it the same section numbering scheme as the body so "App. C.2" resolves unambiguously.
• Late theorem renumbering must propagate to the correspondence table and README — do it with a script, not by hand, in deadline week.

Output format

[Split audit] <claims whose evidence sits only outside the body>
[Sketch-proof consistency] <mismatches found>
[Anonymity scan] clean / leaks listed
[Version lock] <tag/commit for PDF + appendix + archive>
[Upload set] <files, sizes, formats for HotCRP>