Mark Nottingham

Mark Nottingham (b. November 30, 1971) is an influential web infrastructure developer who is one of the authors of the Atom (with Robert Sayre) and WS-I Basic Profile specifications, the author of RFC 4229: HTTP Header Registrations, and the chairman of the IETF HTTPBIS Working Group and W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group. He was an early advocate of web services, protocols that enabled software interoperability over the web.^[1]

Nottingham joined Yahoo in 2006, where he works as a principal technologist—a position the company calls a "technical Yahoo" -- in the media infrastructure department. He previously worked for BEA Systems as a senior principal technologist and at Akamai Technologies as a research scientist.

The Web Services Addressing Working Group was launched in 2004 to extend the WS-Addressing specification.^[2] The group produced three specifications and closed in 2007.

In 2002, Nottingham wrote "So You'd Like to Be a Standards Geek," a reading list on Amazon.com for people who aspire to create Internet protocols and formats. He included Machiavelli's The Prince among the books to read: "It's short, sweet (well, not really) and gets you in the proper frame of mind for doing battle, er, gathering consensus," he quipped.

He has been a featured speaker at the technical conferences QCon 2007 in London, QCon 2008 in San Francisco and XTech 2006 in Amsterdam.

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Nottingham graduated from Towson University with a bachelor of arts in photojournalistic studies, a self-designed major that included work in journalism, photography and graphic design.

He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife Anitra and their two sons.

References

1. ^ JavaWorld (2005-06-30). "Interoperability frustrations aired". http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2005/jw-0630-iw-sunms.html. Retrieved 2008-12-12. 
2. ^ Information Week (2004-10-08). "W3C Launches Web Services Addressing Working Group". http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=49900503. Retrieved 2008-12-12. 

External links

• Mark Nottingham's personal web site
• RFC 4287, The Atom Syndication Format
• WS-I Basic Profile
• RFC 4229
• So You'd Like to Be a Standards Geek, written by Nottingham

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