> There are so many improvements we could be making, but corporations don't see any "immediate shareholder value", so they sit around happy as pigs in shit with

> There are so many improvements we could be making, but corporations don't see any "immediate shareholder value", so they sit around happy as pigs in shit with the status quo. This is severe bullshit on two fronts: - there is an immediate return on value - Google was driving this a decade+ ago for improvements in the data center (things like doubled+cancelable rpc, tcp cubic, quic, etc) - academia constantly attempts to make these improvements as well because researchers are super incentivized to dethrone tcp for the glory. There are constant attempts to re-invent various layers (IP, tcp, the non existent upper layers of the OSI, etc) that come out of academic conferences every year. The reason we’re still here is because our current stacks have been heavily optimized and tooled for production workloads. NICs can transparently re-assemble TCP segments for the OS and they can segment before transmit. You have to have a damn good value prop to throw away everything from software and hardware to careers and curriculum. It has to be a shitload better than the security nightmare of “return back each layer of the stack”.