[ih] QUIC story

[Barbara Denny]

Hi,
I have been wondering for quite sometime how new people to the field learn about how to incorporate their ideas.  Is there some active outreach to encourage corporations to engage in the IETF? How do their employees, or even students, learn about such things? Etc.... I predate the IETF so my experience is very different than people today.
This is tied into a story about QUIC.  For many years I attended talks hosted by the Bay Area ACM.  The topics were always a mix of things but almost never anything to do with networking.  I was pleasantly surprised when someone started to present information on a transport protocol called QUIC.   Someone from Google gave the presentation. Unfortunately I don't remember the person's name.  At the end of the presentation,  I asked had they approached the IETF regarding what they were doing (I think they had started, or about to start, some real world testing).  Their response made me feel like they hadn't done anything in this regard and left me wondering whether they were even familiar with the IETF.  I suggested they consider starting a dialogue with the transport area.
barbara