Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

Work | Papers | Specs | Talks | Off Work

	Email	[email protected]	Postal address	World Wide Web Consortium MIT/LCS NE43-348 545 Technology Square Cambridge MA 02139 USA
	Phone	+1 617 258 8143	Fax	+1 617 258 5999
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Think about the amount of time you have spent today moving around atoms - imagine what you can do with bits!

Work Areas

I spend most of my time doing HTTP related work which is part of the W3C Architecture domain. This involves both coding and specifications and I am a co-author of the HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, PEP, and MUX specifications. My current project is HTTP-NG, which is an attempt of redesigning HTTP using layering and modularization. The goal is simplicity, extensibility, automatibility and performance.

I have also been working on designing and implementing Libwww - the W3C Sample Code Library, which has been around since the early Web days. Other areas that I am very interested in are Addressing, Caching and Replication and Objects on the Web. If you are interested, then you can find a version of my resume.

Refereed Publications from Conferences & Workshops

• Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Jim Gettys, Anselm Baird-Smith, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Håkon Wium Lie, and Chris Lilley, "Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG", W3C, SIGCOMM'97. You can also get the postscript version
• Henrik Frystyk Nielsen and Håkon W. Lie, "Towards a Uniform Library of Common Code", Proceedings of the 2nd International World-Wide Web Conference, Chicago, December 1994

Internet Specifications

• R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. C. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", IETF RFC 2068, U.C. Irvine, DEC W3C/MIT, DEC, W3C/MIT, W3C/MIT, January 1997
• T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0", IETF RFC 1945, W3C/MIT, UC Irvine, W3C/MIT, May 1996.
• J. C. Mogul, R. Fielding, J. Gettys, H. Frystyk, "Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers", IETF RFC 2145, May 1997

Selected Talks

• (in Danish) - talk about Web II - and where we want to go
• HTTP NG Overview and HTTP NG Over Wireless presented at the WAP Forum meeting in Malmö, Sweden, October 8, 1998
• "Gateways are bad - Proxies are good" a comparison of WAP and NG and potential merge is described. Presented at the ACTS Mobile Communication Summit '98, June 8, 1998, Rhodes, Greece
• "On overview of the W3C HTTP-NG Project" presented at the WWW7 Conference, April 15, 1998, Brisbane, Australia
• "There can be only one! - the future of Application Layer" presented at "Towards a New Generation of HTTP Workshop", April 14, 1998, Brisbane, Australia
• "HTTP/1.0, 1.1 and Beyond - an Evolutionary Perspective on HTTP" presented at "W3C Mobile Access Workshop", April 7-8, 1998, Tokyo, Japan
• "Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG" co-presented with Jim Gettys at the SIGCOMM'97 Conference, September 1997, Cannes, France

Off Work

I love to play my guitar - both classical and electric and listen to all kind of music from Gustav Mahler to Ramones and anything intelligent in between. Also, I read as much as possible of and about thinkers and visionaries.

I'd rather be a well-tuned soul with a dysfunctional agent
than a dysfunctional soul with a well-tuned agent!

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
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