HTTP-NG Reading List

Other reading lists

• The HTTP/1.x Reading List
• Acknowledged Submissions to W3C and W3C Technical Reports
• Bill Janssen's Reading List of relevant information
• Sally Floyd's Networking Papers, Notes, and Talks
• Zhen Liu's Reading List on Web characterization and caching
• Jim Pitkow's Reading List on Web characterization and caching
• The Large-Scale Active Middleware Project at isi on HTTP performance

Web Characterization and Caching

• Stephen Manley, Network Appliance, Margo Seltzer, Harvard University, "Web Facts and Fantasy", October 1997
• Jeffrey C. Mogul, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann, and Balachander Krishnamurthy, "Potential benefits of delta-encoding and data compression for HTTP", Procedings of SIGCOMM'97
• W3C Meeting, " Web Efficiency and Robustness", April 1996
• James J. Hunt, Kiem-Phong Vo, and Walter F. Tichy, "An Empirical Study of Delta Algorithms", in Ian Sommerville (ed.) Proc. Software Configuration Management 6 Workshop (SCM-6), Berlin, Germany, March 25-26, 1996, pp. 49-66. There is also an updated version
• Margo Seltzer, "World Wide Web Cache Consistency", January 1996
• The NSFNET Backbone Project, "NFSNET Archives", 1995
• Steven Glassman, "A Caching Relay for the World Wide Web", First International Conference on the World Wide Web 25-27 May 1994, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)

Transport Issues

• T/TCP Home Page (TCP for Transactions)
• J. Touch, "TCP Control Block Interdependence", RFC 2140, April 1997
• B. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang, "Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet". Internet draft draft-irtf-e2e-queue-mgt-00.txt, ps, March 25, 1997.
• Jamshid Mahdavi & Sally Floyd, "TCP-Friendly Unicast Rate-Based Flow Control", January, 1997
• W. Stevens, "TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms", RFC 2001, January 1997
• John Heidemann, "Performance Interactions Between P-HTTP and TCP Implementations", USC/Information Sciences Institute, November 1996
• S. Spero, "Session Control Protocol (SCP) Version 1.1", November 1996
• Jim Gettys, "Simple MUX Protocol Specification", October 1996
• The DCOM protocol (DCOM ORPC - issued as an IETF Internet draft "draft-brown-dcom-v1-spec-01.txt". Expired, May 1996
• Internet Inter-ORB protocol (IIOP) - the wire protocol for CORBA produced by OMG, 1995
• S. Spero, "Session Control Protocol (SCP) Version 1.0", 1995
• R. Braden. , "T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functional Specification",  RFC 1644 July 1994
• XNS SPP, November 1990
• J. Mogul, S. Deering, "Path MTU Discovery", RFC 1191, DECWRL, Stanford University, November 1990
• Jacobson, V., "Congestion Avoidance and Control" Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88. August 1988, p. 314-329.

Wireless Communications

• Wireless Access Protocol (WAP), August 1997
• Handheld Device Transfer Protocol (HDTP), Unwired Planet, August 1997

HTTP

• D. Connolly, R. Khare, H. Frystyk, "PEP - an Extension Mechanism for HTTP", Internet Draft, draft-ietf-http-pep, July 1997. This is work in progress
• Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Jim Gettys, Anselm Baird-Smith, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Håkon Wium Lie, and Chris Lilley, "Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG", W3C, February 1997
• R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. C. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2068, U.C. Irvine, DEC W3C/MIT, DEC, W3C/MIT, W3C/MIT, January 1997
• Joe Touch, "Analysis of HTTP Performance", August 16, 1996
• Panel Session, "Distributed Object Technology and the Web", WWW5 Conference, May 1996
• T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0", RFC 1945, W3C/MIT, UC Irvine, W3C/MIT, May 1996.
• S. Spero, "Analysis of HTTP Performance problems", June 1995
• S. Spero "Next Generation Hypertext Transport Protocol", 1995
• Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Jeffrey C. Mogul, "Improving HTTP Latency", University of California -- Berkeley, Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory, October 1994

Distributed Object Systems

• Jim Waldo et al, "A Note on Distributed Computing", TR-94-29, Sun Microsystems Laboratorie, November 1994
• Inter-Language Unification (ILU) - a multi-language object interface system from Xerox Parc
• Remote Method Invocation (RMI) - Java's distributed object system
• DCE RPC - an RPC system used as the basis for the OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).
• CORBA - The OMG distributed object system
• COM - The Microsoft object system
• ONC RPC is an RPC system used in the Open Network Computing architecture, currently under consideration as an Internet standard (RFC 1831, RFC 1832, RFC 1833, and RFC 1790)

Web Interfaces

• The WIDL language from Web Methods
• Jim Gettys, "ISL interfaces for Simon Spero's HTTP-NG", 1996
• D. Robinson "The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1", work in progress 15 February 1996

URIs and Naming

• Paul J. Leach, Rich Salz, "UUIDs and GUIDs", Internet Draft draft-leach-uuids-guids-00, February 1997. This is work in progress
• The Persistent URL (PURL) scheme from OCLC