HTTP-NG Activity

10.2 HTTP-NG Activity

In the summer of 1997, the World Wide Web Consortium launched a special project to investigate and propose a major new version of HTTP that would fix the problems related to complexity, extensibility, performance, and transport dependence. This new HTTP was called HTTP: The Next Generation (HTTP-NG).

A set of HTTP-NG proposals was presented at an IETF meeting in December 1998. These proposals outlined one possible major evolution of HTTP. This technology has not been widely implemented (and may never be), but HTTP-NG does represent the most serious effort toward extending the lineage of HTTP. Let's look at HTTP-NG in more detail.