Roy T. Fielding
Pronouns: he/him

Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe, co-founder of The ASF, author of REST architectural style and IETF standards for HTTP, URI, and URI Templates.

Roles

Role Group Email
Reviewer (See reviews) HTTP Directorate (httpdir) [email protected]

RFCs (18)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 1808 Jun 1995 Relative Uniform Resource Locators 19 RFCs
RFC 1945 May 1996 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 54 RFCs
RFC 2068 Jan 1997 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 55 RFCs
RFC 2145 May 1997 Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers 5 RFCs
RFC 2396 Aug 1998 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax 119 RFCs
RFC 2616 Jun 1999 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 272 RFCs
RFC 3986 Jan 2005 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax 407 RFCs
RFC 6570 Mar 2012 URI Template 22 RFCs
RFC 6585 Apr 2012 Additional HTTP Status Codes 13 RFCs
RFC 7230 Jun 2014 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing 135 RFCs
RFC 7231 Jun 2014 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content 96 RFCs
RFC 7232 Jun 2014 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests 26 RFCs
RFC 7233 Jun 2014 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests 15 RFCs
RFC 7234 Jun 2014 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching 41 RFCs
RFC 7235 Jun 2014 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication 35 RFCs
RFC 9110 Jun 2022 HTTP Semantics 81 RFCs
RFC 9111 Jun 2022 HTTP Caching 14 RFCs
RFC 9112 Jun 2022 HTTP/1.1 21 RFCs

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