Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification (RFC 2616) and a frequently-cited authority on computer network architecture. Fielding was born in Laguna Beach, California, U.S.A., and received a doctorate from the University 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 the world wide web, and received a large amount of attention. People now frequently hold up REST as an approach to developing web services, as 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 was a member of the interim OpenSolaris Boards. He currently works as chief scientist at Day Software in Newport Beach, California.
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External links
- Fielding's personal web site
- Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, University of California, Irvine, 2000
- Day Software
