Category Archives: Standards

Proposing HTTP Request Forwarding

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I’ve been monitoring the ietf-http-wg mailing list and have noticed there is renewed actively around revising RFC 2616, the HTTP/1.1 specification. This renewed activity got me thinking it was time to discuss the need for HTTP Request Forwarding. I’ll start … Continue reading →

Posted in Call to Action, For Comment, HTTP, Potential, Standards Participants | 3 Comments

Bitten by the URI Opacity Axiom

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

  Jon Udel has a post today entitled Divergent citation-indexing paths. Funny that he wrote about this; it seems he and I are on such a parallel trajectory these days. For evidence, take a look at my post from last … Continue reading →

Posted in Axioms, Commentary, Internet Professionals, SoapBox, URIs | 2 Comments

Proposing URI Templates for WebForms 2.0

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I recently had an off-list email conversation with Ian Hickson, the editor of the Web Application Hypertext Technology Working Group specifications (i.e. HTML5 and WebForms 2.0). I was proposing to him that the current WebForms 2.0 be draft specification be … Continue reading →

Posted in Call to Action, Framework Developers, Open-Source Participants, Potential, SoapBox, Software Vendors, Standards Participants, URI Templates, Web App Providers, Web Developers, Web Forms | 8 Comments

About URI Templates

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

Probably one of the most interesting projects related to URL Design on which anyone is currently working is the URI Templates project spearheaded by Joe Gregorio of IBM. While not sexy and not something most end users will ever see, infrastructure … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Professionals, Proposals, REST, Sitemaps, SoapBox, Software Vendors, URI Templates, URL Rewriters, URL Virtualization | 1 Comment