Post #932433
2025-11-30 00:02 UTC
The IETF HTTP WG mailing list has been hosted by the W3C since late 1997, because of practical considerations and the close collaboration between the IETF and W3C on HTTP standards.
Prior to this, the HTTP WG’s mailing list was hosted by Hewlett-Packard Labs. This was the primary venue for discussions during the development of HTTP/1.0 (published as RFC 1945 in 1996) and early work on HTTP/1.1.
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@xfq@w3c.social 2025-11-30 00:02
In December 1997, the HP-hosted list went offline due to a combination of holiday (Christmas) site maintenance and the physical relocation of HP’s list server. The outage was expected to last from December 18, 1997, to January 5, 1998. To avoid disrupting ongoing discussions, W3C stepped in as a courtesy and quickly provisioned a temporary list at ietf-http-wg@w3.org.