The sixth HTTP Workshop is on for 2024: 12-14 November in London.
This is a unique event; most of the time is unstructured, promoting unfiltered discussion among the major implementers and practitioners of HTTP. Each day will have a few "anchor" talks to stimulate discussion, but we expect attendees to drive most of the agenda.
As they have always been, our goals are to:
- Encourage discussion and understanding between different parts of the HTTP community
- Identify areas of work or specific efforts that have common interest, to foster further work (in standards bodies and in implementations)
- Ensure broad input into future development of the protocol
See previous years' reports for an idea of what goes on.
We anticipate most major HTTP implementations being represented, including browsers, servers, intermediaries, libraries, and tools.
In addition, we'd like to see active participation from practitioners at scale. If you work with large-scale HTTP deployments, whether that's serving "traditional" Web pages or using HTTP for back-end APIs, please consider attending.
This year, we want to grow the diversity of our participants. If you know someone who cares about HTTP, has made contributions, or wants to build their career around it, please tell us!
Finally, if you are a student working in a relevant area, this is a great opportunity to gain insight into this community.
The Workshop will be held in London, UK, 12-14 November 2024. Participation will be in-person only.
This year's Workshop venue is being generously sponsored by Cloudflare. Thanks!
We have limited space (about 40 people), and want to make sure the discussion is valuable for those who attend. So, a program committee will select attendees.
We’re looking for people who can talk about things like:
- Data and insights about how HTTP is implemented and used
- Problems in existing HTTP implementations and/or deployments
- Ways to improve core aspects of HTTP such as performance, security, or reliability
- Useful extensions to HTTP
- Work on HTTP itself, with or without the constraint of backwards compatibility
- Their opinions about what the HTTP community should (or should not) focus its energy on
If this sounds like you, please send a statement of interest to the Program Committee. We'll use the statements to select attendees and to guide the content of the workshop itself.
You can include as much or as little information as you like in it, but the more context we have for who's interested in coming, the better. If you are the primary maintainer of an implementation of HTTP, please mention its details in your statement. If you have ideas about what topics the Workshop should cover (or not), we'd love to hear them.
Note that if necessary, we will limit representation from single companies and projects to assure balanced participation.
All attendees will be expected to adhere to the Conference Code of Conduct. We will publish a summary of what happens at the Workshop.
Please make a statement of interest using this form as soon as possible and no later than 1 September 2024.
- Statement of Interest by: 1 September 2024
- Attendees Notified by: 15 September 2024
- Attendee Confirmation by: 30 September 2024
- HTTP Workshop: 12-14 November 2024
Thanks to Cloudflare for sponsoring our venue, and Akamai for sponsoring our welcome event.
If you would like to sponsor a lunch or dinner, please contact Mark Nottingham.
The PC for the Workshop is:
- Roy Fielding - fielding at gbiv dot com
- Mark Nottingham - mnot at mnot dot net
- Julian Reschke - julian.reschke at greenbytes dot de
- Martin Thomson - mt at lowentropy dot net