Current Projects

• Serving on the Internet Architecture Board
• Chairing the IAB/W3C Workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access
• Chairing the IETF HTTP Working Group
• Chairing the IETF AI Preferences Working Group
• Leading Cloudflare’s technical standards participation
• Arranging the HTTP Workshop
• Learning about governance at the Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Testing HTTP resources with REDbot.org
• Discovering how caches work at cache-tests.fyi
• Making RFCs easier to find using rfc.fyi
• Collecting good bars at Cocktail Standards

See also my specs in progress, projects at Github and random code snippets.

Writing and Presentations

• Series: The Nature of Internet Standards
• RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
• RFC 8890: The Internet is for End Users
• Caching Tutorial for Web authors and Webmasters
• RSS and Atom Feed Tutorial for content publishers and Webmasters
• An Opinionated Guide to Melbourne
• What to Expect from HTTP/2 2012; presented at Boeing, AirBnB, BBC, etc.
• What’s up with HTTP? 2008; presented at Bell Labs, Google, Yahoo!

See also other talks I’ve given and my academic papers.

Snapshot

Recent Thoughts on my Blog

• Informing HTTP Extension Design with Data   What 120 million HTTP responses from Common Crawl reveal about how protocol extensions actually get deployed — and what that should tell us when we design new ones.
• So You Want To Define a Well-Known URI   When to reach for a well-known URI — and the traps that catch most protocol designers.
• Web Feeds in 2026: A Survey   I looked through Common Crawl and found over 500,000 parseable RSS/Atom feeds, confirming that Web feeds are still a major part of the Open Web. But most aren’t high quality, and autodiscovery often points users at stale or abandoned feeds.
• What’s Missing in the ‘Agentic’ Story   Every online interaction is a lopsided negotiation. For AI to truly work for us, we need more than just safety — we need to start building true agency as a form of collective bargaining.
• Using AI to Evaluate Internet Standards (Part Two)   Standards work is notoriously hard to track. Let’s explore if grounding AI in working group records can make that history more accessible.
• The Internet Isn’t Facebook: How Openness Changes Everything   Openness makes the Internet harder to govern — but also makes it resilient, innovative, and difficult to capture. Let’s look at how the openness of the Internet both defines it and ensures its success.
• The Power of ‘No’ in Internet Standards   The voluntary nature of Internet standards means that the biggest power move may be to avoid playing the game. Let’s take a look.
• Some Thoughts on the Open Web   The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web’s Openness in terms of access to information — how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there.

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