Roy Fielding, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe, discusses the future and past of managing content and services in this new era of devices and experiences.

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Roy T. Fielding | Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe
HTTP: What next?
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Adobe Past
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Adobe Present
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Digital Media Digital Marketing

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Paul needs a new sticker
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[2007 Paul Downey]

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Which Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?
HTTP/1.1 is Done! (again)
§ RFC 7230: Message Syntax and Routing
§ RFC 7231: Semantics and Content
§ RFC 7232: Conditional Requests
§ RFC 7233: Range Requests
§ RFC 7234: Caching
§ RFC 7235: Authentication
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Which Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?
HTTP/1.1 is Done! (again)
§ RFC 7230: Message Syntax and Routing
§ RFC 7231: Semantics and Content
§ RFC 7232: Conditional Requests
§ RFC 7233: Range Requests
§ RFC 7234: Caching
§ RFC 7235: Authentication
HTTP/2.0 (in progress)
§ Standardization of Google’s SPDY
§ Session-layer tunnel for HTTP, maybe with header compression
§ Should have been called TCP++, or TLS++
§ Improvement for authenticated or session-heavy sites
§ http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/wiki
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W3C Tracking Preference Expression (Do Not Track)
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W3C Tracking Preference Expression (Do Not Track)
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Online Advertising
Industry
US FTC European Commission
Privacy Advocates

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W3C Tracking Preference Expression (Do Not Track)
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Online Advertising
Industry
US FTC European Commission
Privacy Advocates
… TPE (the protocol half of DNT) is now in Last Call …

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What next?
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I could get some REST …
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Figure 5-9. REST Derivation by Style Constraints
RR CS LS VM U
CSS LCS COD$
C$SS LC$SS LCODC$SS REST
replicated
on-demand
separated
layered
mobile
uniform interface
stateless
shared
intermediate
processing
cacheable
extensible
simple
reusable
scalable
reliable
multi-
org.
visible
programmable

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I could get some REST …
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Figure 5-9. REST Derivation by Style Constraints
RR CS LS VM U
CSS LCS COD$
C$SS LC$SS LCODC$SS REST
replicated
on-demand
separated
layered
mobile
uniform interface
stateless
shared
intermediate
processing
cacheable
extensible
simple
reusable
scalable
reliable
multi-
org.
visible
programmable
Constraints

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I could get some REST …
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Figure 5-9. REST Derivation by Style Constraints
RR CS LS VM U
CSS LCS COD$
C$SS LC$SS LCODC$SS REST
replicated
on-demand
separated
layered
mobile
uniform interface
stateless
shared
intermediate
processing
cacheable
extensible
simple
reusable
scalable
reliable
multi-
org.
visible
programmable
Properties

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Internet of …
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Internet of …
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EVERYTHING

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AEM Philosophy
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EVERYTHING
is
CONTENT

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Adobe Present
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Digital Media Digital Marketing

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Adobe Future ?
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