2022 HTTP Workshop

The fifth HTTP Workshop is on for 2022: 1-3 November in Oxford.

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.

Who Should Come?

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.

When and Where

The Workshop will be held in Oxford, UK, 1-3 November 2022. Participation will be in-person only.

This year's Workshop venue is being generously sponsored by Fastly. Thanks!

Want to Come?

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 by 3 October 2022.

Important Dates

Statement of Interest by: 3 October 2022
Attendees Notified by: 10 October 2022
Attendee Confirmation by: 10 October 2022
HTTP Workshop: 1-3 November 2022

Note that because of the compressed schedule, we will be notifying attendees as soon as possible after we receive a statement of interest.

Program Committee

The PC for the Workshop is:

Roy Fielding - fielding at gbiv dot com
Mark Nottingham - mnot at mnot dot net
Martin Thomson - mt at lowentropy dot net

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