Mark Nottingham
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Mark Nottingham

Mark Nottingham has contributed to the design and maintenance of core Internet technologies for more than twenty-five years, focusing on HTTP, URLs, RSS/Atom, and QUIC. He has written more than thirty IETF RFCs and W3C Recommendations.

As Chair of the HTTP Working Group since 2007, he oversees the evolution of the foundational protocol of the Web. As Chair of the QUIC Working Group, he shepherded the evolution of Internet transport. He has previously served in leadership positions including the W3C Board of Directors, the Internet Architecture Board, and the W3C Technical Architecture Group.

Mark holds a Graduate Diploma of Communications Law from Melbourne Law School and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Currently, he is Standards Lead at Cloudflare and lives in Prahran, Australia.

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair HTTP (httpbis) mnot@mnot.net
Chair HTTP Directorate (httpdir) mnot@mnot.net
Chair IAB Workshop on AI-CONTROL (aicontrolws) mnot@mnot.net
Chair AI Preferences (aipref) mnot@mnot.net
Lead Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology (eimpact) mnot@mnot.net
Member Internet Architecture Board (iab) mnot@mnot.net
Member IAB-ISOC Policy Coordination (iabisoc) mnot@mnot.net
Reviewer HTTP Directorate (httpdir) mnot@mnot.net
Secretary Building Blocks for HTTP APIs (httpapi) mnot@mnot.net
Secretary HTTP Directorate (httpdir) mnot@mnot.net

External Resources

Name Value
My Internet-Drafts https://github.com/mnot/I-D
GitHub Username mnot
My Home Page https://www.mnot.net

RFCs (40)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 3864 Sep 2004 Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields 53 RFCs
RFC 3902 Sep 2004 The "application/soap+xml" media type 1 RFC
RFC 4229 Dec 2005 HTTP Header Field Registrations
RFC 4287 Dec 2005 The Atom Syndication Format 23 RFCs
RFC 5005 Sep 2007 Feed Paging and Archiving 3 RFCs
RFC 5785 Apr 2010 Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) 28 RFCs
RFC 5861 May 2010 HTTP Cache-Control Extensions for Stale Content 4 RFCs
RFC 5988 Oct 2010 Web Linking 29 RFCs
RFC 6570 Mar 2012 URI Template 19 RFCs
RFC 6585 Apr 2012 Additional HTTP Status Codes 11 RFCs
RFC 6648 Jun 2012 Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols 14 RFCs
RFC 6901 Apr 2013 JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Pointer 7 RFCs
RFC 6902 Apr 2013 JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Patch 3 RFCs
RFC 7234 Jun 2014 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching 39 RFCs
RFC 7320 Jul 2014 URI Design and Ownership 9 RFCs
RFC 7807 Mar 2016 Problem Details for HTTP APIs 9 RFCs
RFC 7838 Apr 2016 HTTP Alternative Services 13 RFCs
RFC 8164 May 2017 Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2 5 RFCs
RFC 8288 Oct 2017 Web Linking 19 RFCs
RFC 8336 Mar 2018 The ORIGIN HTTP/2 Frame 3 RFCs
RFC 8470 Sep 2018 Using Early Data in HTTP 7 RFCs
RFC 8586 Apr 2019 Loop Detection in Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) 2 RFCs
RFC 8615 May 2019 Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) 11 RFCs
RFC 8674 Dec 2019 The "safe" HTTP Preference
RFC 8752 Mar 2020 Report from the IAB Workshop on Exploring Synergy between Content Aggregation and the Publisher Ecosystem (ESCAPE) 1 RFC
RFC 8820 Jun 2020 URI Design and Ownership 2 RFCs
RFC 8890 Aug 2020 The Internet is for End Users 2 RFCs
RFC 8941 Feb 2021 Structured Field Values for HTTP 8 RFCs
RFC 8959 Jan 2021 The "secret-token" URI Scheme
RFC 9110 Jun 2022 HTTP Semantics 18 RFCs
RFC 9111 Jun 2022 HTTP Caching 8 RFCs
RFC 9112 Jun 2022 HTTP/1.1 7 RFCs
RFC 9205 Jun 2022 Building Protocols with HTTP 1 RFC
RFC 9209 Jun 2022 The Proxy-Status HTTP Response Header Field 1 RFC
RFC 9211 Jun 2022 The Cache-Status HTTP Response Header Field
RFC 9213 Jun 2022 Targeted HTTP Cache Control
RFC 9457 Jul 2023 Problem Details for HTTP APIs
RFC 9518 Dec 2023 Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
RFC 9651 Sep 2024 Structured Field Values for HTTP
RFC 9652 Sep 2024 The Link-Template HTTP Header Field

Active Internet-Drafts (6)

Expired Internet-Drafts (86)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

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