On 14 Oct 2022, at 9:56, Simon Pietro Romano wrote: >> Don't think in-person is the main issue. >> Long time to produce RFC is IMHO big reason >> Funding for topics relating to what can be done in IETF is also core reason >> >> Aka: it is uncommon, but stsill well possible IMHO to participate as an >> acedemic through email/conference-calls and produce RFC. You just need funding >> and some IETF WG/team that works fast enough for an acaemics requirements. > > Related to that, let me add that for an academic’s career it is much more useful to have a paper published in a top-ranking journal rather than having co-authored several RFCs. Fully agree, but I’d also add that the incentives for academic participation vary widely over time, and between different countries with different academic funding models. Some systems explicitly value academic engagement with industry, research impact, standards contributions, and the like; others do not. Colin
