Current HTTP

The current HTTP model has many drawbacks:

• complexity
• poor extensibility
• lack of generality
• poor scalability

Goals

The HTTP-NG project is an attempt to design a new model

• Caracterize the current use of the Web
• Design, implement and test a new model

Properties

• Simplicity
• Extensibility
• Scalability
• Efficiency

HTTP-NG architecture

• A reliable transport protocol, with multiple channels
• An RPC-like interface with an efficient wire encoding
• Basic interfaces for Web services

HTTP-NG architecture (2)

Current status

• preliminary results from the Caracterization WG
• Public draft for the multiplexing layer MUX
• internal drafts for wire encoding and HTTP interfaces
• a testbed is being implemented using ILU, Apache, Jigsaw and Amaya

Nothing is yet written in stone