[ih] the state of protocol R&D?

[Brian E Carpenter]

Isn't this what the IRTF is for? It currently has 9 research groups
and there's a procedure for proposing new ones.

I also see quite a lot of protocol R&D in SIGCOMM agendas, and
CCR generally.

I also used to be deluged with MSc and PhD applications from
people interested in layer 2 mesh networks and the like, but
that probably isn't what you mean.

   Brian

On 25/05/2014 09:17, Vint Cerf wrote:
> Dtnrg is one such group and a BOF is planned at next IETF for a WG.
> On May 24, 2014 12:37 PM, "Miles Fidelman" <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> For a while, it's been kind of bugging me that the Internet ecosystem is
>> increasingly a world of API's tied to proprietary systems - quite different
>> than the world of interoperable protocols.  Sure, every once in a while
>> something new comes along - like RSS and XMPP, but that's more at the
>> fringes - and in a lot of cases we see attempts at things by folks who
>> really don't have a clue (open social comes to mind).
>>
>> Obviously, a lot of that is driven by commercial factors - there's money
>> to be made in centralizing systems and monetizing APIs; not so much for
>> protocols.  And it seems like there isn't a lot of R&D funding for such
>> things.
>>
>> Which leads me to wonder - is there much of a protocol r&d community left
>> - academic or otherwise?  Or funders?  And if so, where do folks
>> "congregate?"  For programming languages, there's
>> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/, conferences like OOPSLA, and there seems
>> to be a steady stream of academic papers.  Is there anything left like that
>> for protocol R&D?
>>
>> Miles Fidelman
>>
>> --
>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>> In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
>>
>>
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