IETF

News, Updates, and Events

Oct 27, 1999: Endpoint Congestion Management (ecm) Working Group chartered in the Transport area of the IETF; outcome should include a fundamental fix to the lack of congestion state sharing between parallel TCP connections.

Mar 19, 1999: mux discussed at SLUMS BOF at IETF-44 in Minneapolis (see Transport Area summary).

Feb 22, 1999: draft of the mux WG charter.

Dec 11, 1998: HTTP-NG BOF at IETF-43 in Orlando (minutes; also mentioned in Transport Area summary).

Nov 18, 1998: HTTP-NG Overview: Problem Statement, Requirements, and Solution Outline out as Internet Draft.

Nov 18, 1998: Proposed charter for IETF HTTP-NG working group; Agenda for the HTTP-NG BOF at the upcoming IETF meeting, Orlando, Fl.

Nov 14, 1998: New mailing list for proposed IETF HTTP-NG working group.

Nov 10, 1998: The Web Characterization Activity is now up and running.

Nov 5, 1998: The Web Characterization Group which was part of the HTTP-NG Activity is being continued in the Web Characterization Activity.

August 24, 1998: Minutes of HTTP-NG BOF at IETF-42 in Chicago.

August 1, 1998: First set of drafts submitted to the IETF to be discussed at the HTTP-NG BOF at the Chicago IETF meeting

July 10, 1998: First W3C Working Drafts released

June 17, 1998: Protocol Design Group Status Report is available - (members only)

March 27, 1998: First Public Working Draft: Short- and Long-Term Goals for the HTTP-NG Project

Oct ober 10, 1997: Final minutes from the HTTP-NG face-to-face meeting - (members only)

July 7, 1997: Project started and HTTP-NG Briefing Package - (members only)

Specifications, Drafts, Papers and Reports

• HTTP-NG Overview: Problem Statement, Requirements, and Solution Outline, IETF Internet Draft, November 17, 1998
• HTTP-ng Architectural Model, IETF Internet Draft, August 1, 1998
• HTTP-ng Web Interfaces, IETF Internet Draft, August 1, 1998
• HTTP-ng Binary Wire Protocol, IETF Internet Draft, August 1, 1998
• WebMUX Protocol Specification, IETF Internet Draft, August 1, 1998
• Design of HTTP-ng Testbed, W3C Note, 10 July 1998
• Short- and Long-Term Goals for the HTTP-NG Project, W3C Note, 27 March 1998

• HTTP-ng Architectural Model, W3C Working Draft, 10 July 1998
• HTTP-ng Web Interfaces, W3C Working Draft, 10 July 1998
• HTTP-ng Binary Wire Protocol, W3C Working Draft, 10 July 1998
• SMUX Protocol Specification, W3C Working Draft, 10 July 1998

Mailing lists

• Any follow-up discussion and new initiatives should be discussed on the <www-http-ng-comments@w3.org> mailing list (archives). Postings to this mailing list from non-subscribers are moderated in order to avoid spam. Follow these shortcuts to quick subscribe or quick unsubscribe or see the information on mailing lists for more details.
• The interest group <w3c-http-ng@w3.org> mailing list (archives) is also still open but is deprecated in favor of <www-http-ng-comments@w3.org>
• Another mailing list is <ietf-http-ng@w3.org> with archives which was intended to be used by an IETF working group. It is not clear whether and how that will work so this list is not active.
• Please see the Web Characterization Activity for the new forum for discussing Web Characterization

Related Information

• The HTTP Extension Framework - a framework for extensions in HTTP/1.x
• HTTP/1.1 - the one we all hold dearly!

• HTTP-NG Reading List of information relevant to HTTP-NG

Simon Spero launched the first HTTP-NG proposal in 1995 which attracted much attention. Here is some of the original information

• Simon Spero's original HTTP-NG proposal, 1995
• Early version of Simon's protocol in ISL, 1995
• Jim Gettys, "HTTP Problem Statement", 1995
• Jim Gettys, "HTTP-NG session at the WWW4 conference Developer's Day", 1995