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===HTTP Standardization===

===HTTP Standardization===

IETF initiated the standardization of HTTP standards in the latter part of 1994, the move was strongly supported by [[W3C]].<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Activity.html#role HTTP Activity Statement]</ref> In 1996, Tim Berners-Lee, together with Roy Fielding and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, published RFC 1945, the first IETF Informational Document for HTTP 1.0.<ref>[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt  

IETF initiated the standardization of HTTP standards in the latter part of 1994, the move was strongly supported by [[W3C]].<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Activity.html#role HTTP Activity Statement]</ref> In 1996, Tim Berners-Lee, together with [[Roy Fielding]] and [[Henrik Frystyk Nielsen]], published RFC 1945, the first IETF Informational Document for HTTP 1.0.<ref>[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt  

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0]</ref> Computer scientists working on HTTP 1.0 discovered flaws on the performance of the protocol. Based on the performance analysis prepared by Simon Espero of W3C, there is a delay in transferring data and it has a bad interaction with TCP. Frequent round trip delays were discovered due to connection establishment and a slow start performance was also observed in both directions for short duration connections. The protocol also demonstrated heavy latency penalties because of mismatch of typical access profiles with a single request per transaction model. In addition, HTTP 1.0 requires busy servers to dedicate resources to be able to maintain TIME_WAIT information for large numbers of closed connections.<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/HTTPPerformance.html Analysis of HTTP Performance problems]</ref>  

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0]</ref> Computer scientists working on HTTP 1.0 discovered flaws in the performance of the protocol. Based on the performance analysis prepared by Simon Espero of W3C, there is a delay in transferring data and it has a bad interaction with TCP. Frequent round trip delays were discovered due to connection establishment and a slow start performance was also observed in both directions for short duration connections. The protocol also demonstrated heavy latency penalties because of a mismatch of typical access profiles with a single request per transaction model. In addition, HTTP 1.0 requires busy servers to dedicate resources to be able to maintain TIME_WAIT information for large numbers of closed connections.<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/HTTPPerformance.html Analysis of HTTP Performance problems]</ref>  

Despite the problems discovered with HTTP 1.0, computer scientists from W3C acknowledged the full potential of the protocol and started experimental implementations on HTTP 1.1. Experiments were held within Libwww, the W3C protocol library and Jigsaw, W3C's Web server.<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Activity.html HTTP Activity Statement]</ref> Subsequently, in 1997, a proposed IETF standard, RFC 2068 was submitted to the IETF describing the specifications for HTTP/1.1. <ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1]</ref>  

Despite the problems discovered with HTTP 1.0, computer scientists from W3C acknowledged the full potential of the protocol and started experimental implementations on HTTP 1.1. Experiments were held within Libwww, the W3C protocol library, and Jigsaw, W3C's Web server.<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Activity.html HTTP Activity Statement]</ref> Subsequently, in 1997, a proposed IETF standard, RFC 2068 was submitted to the IETF describing the specifications for HTTP/1.1. <ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1]</ref>  

On July 7, 1999, RFC 2616 was approved by the [[IESG|Internet Engineering Steering Group]] (IESG), as the current IETF draft standard for HTTP/1.1<ref>[ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 REF 2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1]</ref>

On July 7, 1999, RFC 2616 was approved by the [[IESG|Internet Engineering Steering Group]] (IESG), as the current IETF draft standard for HTTP/1.1<ref>[ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 REF 2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1]</ref>

==HTTP Working Group==

==HTTP Working Group==

The HTTP working group was started working on the specifications of the protocol in 1995. The group include Tim Berners-Lee & Dave Ragget who served as co-Chairmen, John Klensin & Erik Huizer served as Application Area Directors While Jeffrey Schiller worked as Security Area Director. <ref>[http://www.w3.org/Arena/webworld/httpwgcharter. HTTP Working Group]</ref>

The HTTP working group was started working on the specifications of the protocol in 1995. The group includes [[Tim Berners-Lee]] and [[Dave Ragget]], who served as co-Chairmen, [[John Klensin]] and [[Erik Huizer]], who served as Application Area Directors, while [[Jeffrey Schiller]] worked as Security Area Director. <ref>[http://www.w3.org/Arena/webworld/httpwgcharter. HTTP Working Group]</ref>

==References==

==References==