On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Lou Berger wrote:
funny - I'd go the other way -- (cash or meeting fee credit) prize for hackaton or codesprint opensource work that benefits the IETF or its protocols, together with 10 minute presentation showcasing the work at the plenary.
You quickly run into "let's not let [TLS|DNS] win again" kind of workarounds. Also, I've done various interop tests with proprietary implementations, but don't think we should give money to Big Vendors for winning :) Paul