mark nottingham

about:mnot

For more than twenty years, I have contributed to the design and maintenance of core Internet technologies such as HTTP, URLs, RSS/Atom, and QUIC. This included writing, editing or substantially contributing to more than thirty IETF RFCs and W3C Recommendations.

As Chair of the HTTP Working Group since 2007, I oversee the evolution of the foundational protocol of the Web, notably including HTTP/2. As Chair of the QUIC Working Group, I shepherded the creation of HTTP/3 and the evolution of Internet transport. I have also served in Internet governance bodies, including the W3C Board of Directors, the Internet Architecture Board, and the W3C Technical Architecture Group.

I’m driven by a desire to understand the role of technical standards in Internet governance, so that they can effectively contribute to human welfare.

Currently, I’m Standards Lead at Cloudflare and live in Prahran, Australia.