Roy T. Fielding (born 1965) is one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and a frequently-cited authority on computer network architecture. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... HTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. ... A computer network is a system for communication among two or more computers. ...

Fielding was born in Laguna Beach, California, U.S.A., and received a doctorate from the University of California, Irvine in 2000. Location of Laguna Beach within Orange County, California. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine is a public, coeducational university situated in suburban Irvine, California. ... This article is about the year 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 the world wide web, and received a large amount of attention. People now frequently hold up REST as an approach to developing web services, and an alternative to other distributed-computing specifications such as CORBA. Fielding has also been heavily involved in the development of HTML and Uniform Resource Identifiers, was a co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server project and is a member of the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board. He currently works as chief scientist at Day Software in Irvine, California. Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems like the world wide web. ... Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, W3, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ... A web service is a collection of protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications. ... In computing, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), is a standard for software componentry. ... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is an Internet protocol element consisting of a short string of characters that conform to a certain syntax. ... Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), Microsoft Windows, Novell Netware and other platforms. ... OpenSolaris is a project created by Sun Microsystems to create an open source version of their Solaris operating system, a proprietary UNIX. The projects licensing terms will be analogous to Suns selling proprietary StarOffice while also sponsoring the OpenOffice. ... Location Location of Irvine within Orange County, California. ...

External links

• Fielding's personal web site
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, University of California, Irvine, 2000
• Day Software