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Web and Internet Transport (wit)

Area Name Web and Internet Transport
Acronym wit
State Active
Group statistics
Personnel Area Directors Gorry Fairhurst, Mike Bishop

Group description

The Web and Internet Transport (WIT) area has responsibility for protocols that provide the functions of the Transport Layer of the Internet, such as QUIC, TCP, UDP, SCTP, RTP, MoQ, and NFS including transport protocols/mechanisms, such as: ECN, congestion control, QoS, queue management, MASQUE, and SCONE.

The WIT area also has responsibility for protocols that implement the World Wide Web (using HTTP) and adjacent technologies that include: web transport, CDNI, Constrained RESTful Environments and WebRTC Ingest Signaling over HTTPS.

Groups in WIT

Group Name Type
Web and Internet Transport Area Open Meeting AG
HTTP Directorate Directorate (with reviews)
Transport Area Review Team Directorate (with reviews)
AI Preferences WG
Audio/Video Transport Core Maintenance WG
Congestion Control Working Group WG
Content Delivery Networks Interconnection WG
Constrained RESTful Environments WG
Heuristics and Algorithms to Prioritize Protocol deploYment WG
Building Blocks for HTTP APIs WG
HTTP WG
Multiplexed Application Substrate over QUIC Encryption WG
Media Over QUIC WG
Network File System Version 4 WG
QUIC WG
Standard Communication with Network Elements WG
TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions WG
Transport and Services Working Group WG
Web Bot Auth WG
WebTransport WG
WebRTC Ingest Signaling over HTTPS WG