Mark Nottingham
Mark Nottingham (born November 30, 1971) is a web infrastructure developer.
Nottingham served on the W3C's Technical Architecture Group[1] and is currently a member of the Internet Architecture Board.[2] He has chaired the IETF HTTP Working Group since 2007, the IETF QUIC Working Group since 2016, and previously chaired the W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group.
He has authored a number of IETF RFCs[3] related to HTTP, URIs and other Web technology.
Nottingham has worked at Akamai Technologies as a Research Scientist, BEA Systems as a Senior Principal Technologist, Yahoo! as a "technical Yahoo" in the media infrastructure department, and Rackspace as a Systems Architect. He then went on to re-join Akamai in September 2012, before transitioning to a brief position at Mozilla, followed by a move to Fastly, in the Office of the CTO.[4]
In 2002, Nottingham wrote "So You'd Like to Be a Standards Geek,[5]" 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 technical conferences including XTech 2006,[6] QCon 2007,[7] Velocity 2010,[8] linux.conf.au 2014,[9] and ausnog 2017.[10]
In August 2017, Nottingham submitted issues to several programming libraries asking for their removal of the 418 ("I'm a teapot") HTTP status code[11] which resulted in it being reserved in a forthcoming revision of HTTP.[12]
Originally from Baltimore, United States, 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
- "W3C Technical Architecture Group". Archived from the original on 2016-02-04.
- "Members of the Internet Architecture Board". Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- "Profile for Mark Nottingham". datatracker.ietf.org. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- Nottingham, Mark. "Resume for Mark Nottingham". Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- Mark Nottingham (2002-08-09). "So You'd Like to Be a Standards Geek". Archived from the original on January 19, 2010.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- "XTech 2006: Schedule". web.archive.org. 2006-08-28. Archived from the original on 2006-08-28. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- "Speakers -> Mark Nottingham". qconlondon.com. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- "Stupid Web Caching (and Other Intermediary) Tricks: Velocity 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 - 24, 2010 - Santa Clara, CA". conferences.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- "linux.conf.au". web.archive.org. 2015-03-10. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- "AusNOG 2017 Speakers | ausnog.net". www.ausnog.net. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- Mark Nottingham. "Re: 425 (Too Early)".
- Nottingham, Mark (2017-11-23). "418". Github. Retrieved 2018-12-21.