That's a good point since most networking standards were developed under the IEEE which was always more industry oriented than the IETF, I think they're both mostly industry players at this point. But still, there is a rich history of free contributions by academia which I think is rarer today.
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Ugh, remember when academia helped create the internet by releasing free publicly available unlicensed RFCs?
Edit: Not RFPs, duh
I'm not sure I remember how each successive advancement in signaling from 802.3-coax through 10gbE through gigabit wireless was driven by public RFCs.
That's a good point since most networking standards were developed under the IEEE which was always more industry oriented than the IETF, I think they're both mostly industry players at this point. But still, there is a rich history of free contributions by academia which I think is rarer today.
You mean RFCs :)
That was before universities were properly resourced.
Universities desperately need to commercialise their research in order to survive.