[guelo]

Ugh, remember when academia helped create the internet by releasing free publicly available unlicensed RFCs?

Edit: Not RFPs, duh

[tptacek]

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.

[guelo]

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.

[hollerith]

You mean RFCs :)

[taligent]

That was before universities were properly resourced.

Universities desperately need to commercialise their research in order to survive.