HTTP/2, HPACK specs approved, headed to RFC Editor

Wednesday's news about HTTP2, which promises to deliver Web pages to browsers more efficiently, is news enough: It's Done. Mark Nottingham, chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group and a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), blogged that "The IESG has formally approved the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications, and they're on their way to the RFC Editor, where they'll soon be assigned RFC numbers, go through some editorial processes, and be published." HTTP, of course, is short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. That may be the only alphabet cluster readily familiar to many. Someone in Nottingham's world, however, as he has helped develop the Web and associated technologies for over 15 years, would easily recognize the other acronyms and get the messages instantly.



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