- Roy Fielding
Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist. He is one of the principal authors of the
HTTP specification (RFC 2616), and a frequently-cited authority oncomputer network architecture.Fielding was born in
Laguna Beach, California , and received a doctorate from theUniversity of California, Irvine in 2000."Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures", Fielding's doctoral dissertation, describes
Representational State Transfer (REST) as a key architectural principle of theworld wide web , and received a large amount of attention. People now frequently hold up REST as an approach to developingweb services , as an alternative to other distributed-computing specifications such asCORBA . Fielding has also been heavily involved in the development ofHTML andUniform Resource Identifier s, was a co-founder of theApache HTTP Server project and was a member of the interimOpenSolaris Boards. He currently works as chief scientist atDay Software inNewport Beach, California .ee also
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Waka (protocol) External links
* [http://roy.gbiv.com/ Fielding's personal web site]
* [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures] , University of California, Irvine, 2000
* [http://www.day.com/ Day Software]
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