- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 94 15:40:02 GMT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
One paragraph summary of the HTTP-BOF, held Wednesday 7-Dec-94 at the 31st IETF meeting, San Jose. Chaired by Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> +44 272 228046 I tried to send this out from the IETF meeting, but somehow it screwed up ... The full minutes will follow soon. The HTTP-BOF was held to assess the need to set up a working group for the World Wide Web hypertext transfer protocol. The suggested goals are to document current practise for HTTP 1.0 as a standards track RFC; to elicit needs for extensions to HTTP and to develop standards for these. Roy Fielding and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen reviewed the Internet Draft for HTTP 1.0 and suggested extensions for 1.1. This was followed by vigorous discussions on ideas for keeping connections open and related ideas. Recent work on HTTPng was reported by Simon Spero. This work adds a session layer to tcp and uses ASN.1 and PER for message encoding. Under congested conditions Simon reported dramatic improvements in performance. The BOF ended by recommending setting up a working group. -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> tel: +44 272 228046 fax: +44 272 228003 Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Filton Road, Bristol BS12 6QZ, United Kingdom
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