Editing HTTP (section)

====W3C HTTP Working Group====
After having decided that new features of HTTP protocol were required and that they had to be fully documented as official [[Request for Comments|RFC]]s, in early 1995 the HTTP Working Group (HTTP&nbsp;WG, led by [[Dave Raggett]]) was constituted with the aim to standardize and expand the protocol with extended operations, extended negotiation, richer meta-information, tied with a security protocol which became more efficient by adding additional methods and [[List of HTTP header fields|header fields]].<ref name="raggettprofile">{{Cite web |last=Raggett |first=Dave |title=Dave Raggett's Bio |url=https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/profile.html|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Raggett |first1=Dave |title=Hypertext Transfer Protocol Working Group |url=https://www.w3.org/Arena/webworld/httpwgcharter.html |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=29 September 2010 |first2=Tim |last2=Berners-Lee}}</ref>

The HTTP WG planned to revise and publish new versions of the protocol as HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 within 1995, but, because of the many revisions, that timeline lasted much more than one year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raggett |first=Dave |title=HTTP WG Plans |url=https://www.w3.org/Arena/webworld/httpwgplans.html |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=29 September 2010}}</ref>

The HTTP WG planned also to specify a far future version of HTTP called HTTP-NG (HTTP Next Generation) that would have solved all remaining problems, of previous versions, related to performances, low latency responses, etc. but this work started only a few years later and it was never completed.