most network engineering foundations (Network operator groups, IETF etc) are far more formal. Which is both a good and a bad thing. On one hand, without market

most network engineering foundations (Network operator groups, IETF etc) are far more formal. Which is both a good and a bad thing. On one hand, without marketing, getting a system adopted on a large scale is hard. (as evident by many RFC's which are not used a lot in the wild). On the other hand, the CNCF seems to have a zillion products which all solve roughly the same problem in the same problem space, which seems to make it unnecessary and complex.