Profile for Roy Fielding Skip to main content Datatracker Groups By area/parent Apps & Realtime General Internet Ops & Management Routing Security Web and Internet Transport IESG IAB IRTF IETF LLC RFC Editor Other Active AGs Active Areas Active Directorates Active IAB Workshops Active Programs Active RAGs Active Teams New work Chartering groups BOFs BOF Requests Other groups Concluded groups Non-WG lists Documents Search Recent I-Ds Submit an Internet-Draft RFC streams IAB IRTF ISE Editorial Subseries STD BCP FYI Meetings Agenda Materials Floor plan Registration Important dates Request a session Session requests Upcoming meetings Upcoming meetings Past meetings Past meetings Meeting proceedings Other IPR disclosures Liaison statements IESG agenda NomComs Downref registry Statistics I-Ds/RFCs Meetings API Help Release notes System status Report a bug User Sign in Password reset Preferences New account List subscriptions IETF Lists IRTF Lists IAB Lists RFC-Editor Lists Report a bug Sign in Javascript disabled? Like other modern websites, the IETF Datatracker relies on Javascript. Please enable Javascript for full functionality. 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) fielding@gbiv.com 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 Active Internet-Drafts (0) Roy has no active Internet-Drafts as of 2026-07-19. Expired Internet-Drafts (24) draft-ietf-httpbis-key draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload draft-lafon-rfc2616bis draft-fielding-http-p1-messaging draft-fielding-http-p2-semantics draft-fielding-http-p3-payload draft-fielding-http-p4-conditional draft-fielding-http-p5-range draft-fielding-http-p6-cache draft-fielding-http-p7-auth draft-fielding-url-syntax draft-fielding-http-age draft-ietf-uri-roy-urn-urc (Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.) Internet-Draft Activity IETF IESG IAB IRTF IETF LLC IETF Trust RFC Editor IANA Privacy Statement About IETF Datatracker Version 12.69.0 (release - 3cce873) System Status Report a bug: GitHub Email