19.15 Additional Reading

You can obtain more information about current developments on the World Wide Web by visiting the web site of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [132], an organization that serves as a forum for development of new standards and protocols for the Web. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [55] is an open community of researchers, engineers and network operators concerned with the evolution and smooth operation of the Internet. Many important architectural developments and network designs appear in some form as IETF RFCs (Request for Comments). The specifications of HTTP/1.0 [53] and HTTP/1.1 [54] are of particular interest for this project. Both W3C and IETF maintain extensive web sites with much technical documentation. An excellent general reference on networking and the Internet can be found in Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by Kurose and Ross [68]. Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement [66] gives a more technical discussion of web performance and HTTP/1.1. "The state of the art in locally distributed web-server systems," by Cardellini et al. [21] reviews different architectures for web server clusters.