As network size, link bandwidth, CPU capacity, and the number of users all increase, research will be needed to ensure that the Internet of the future scales to meet these increasing demands.

This document discusses IAB concerns that ongoing research is needed to further the evolution of the Internet infrastructure, and that consistent, sufficient non-commercial funding is needed to enable such research.

This is a really cool ID ... and puts a finger on a trend that I've been vaguely aware of that the IETF seems to be spending more and more time designing SNMP MIBs and less time on fundamentals.

My boss (director of a lab at CMU) made a remark a few months ago
that sums up the problem: "Why should we work this if industry
can do it?" Academics are simply not interested in building
practical systems! They want to push the limits of the design space. They want to build something that is information-theoretically secure and completely useless in practice.

But industry doesn't seem to be able to do it either: they are
too often brain-damaged by a bean-counting, 6-month-returns mindset.

I would work on this stuff full-time if someone would pay me to do it but noone will since I don't have a PhD and if I did, I probably wouldn't want to anymore!