Mark Nottingham
Member at Cloudflare
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMark Nottingham is a veteran Internet standards engineer with over 25 years of influence on core Web protocols including HTTP, URLs, RSS/Atom and QUIC, and authorship or major contributions to more than thirty IETF RFCs and W3C Recommendations. Based in Melbourne, he combines hands-on engineering—improving spec tooling, XSLT transforms and web-platform-tests for HTTP caching—with strategic leadership as Chair of multiple IETF working groups and a current member of the Internet Architecture Board. He has steered major standards efforts (HTTP/2, QUIC/HTTP3) at companies like Akamai, Fastly and Cloudflare while also shaping governance at the W3C and advising regulators on digital markets. Comfortable across full-stack tooling and documentation, he frequently improves the readability and build processes of specifications, a quieter but critical contribution to Web interoperability. His recent focus blends technical standards work with Internet governance, exploring how protocol design interacts with policy and AI-era content preferences.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, BA, Interdisciplinary Studies at Towson UniversityThe University of Melbourne
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Github Skills (43)
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
httpwg/http-extensions
Jun 2014 - Dec 2022
HTTP Extensions in progress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 151 reviews, 1918 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on updating and maintaining XSLT stylesheets, specifically related to the `rfc2629.xslt` transformation. These changes included adding new features, correcting issues, and incorporating updates to support the generation of RFC documents. The commits involve modifications to the XSLT code used in the HTTP working group's documentation workflow, including handling DOI insertion, references, and list styles. This indicates involvement in the toolchain and content generation for the project.
ietfhttpbisstandards
httpwg/http2-spec
Feb 2013 - Sep 2021
Working copy of the HTTP/2 Specification
Role in this project:Technical Writer & UI/UX
Technical Writer & UI/UXContributions:36 reviews, 324 commits, 10 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on updating and modifying the documentation and user interface elements for the HTTP/2 specification. They contributed to improving the HTML rendering of the specification by incorporating viewport meta tags and making style adjustments. Furthermore, they modified XSLT transformations to generate DTD-valid output and resolved references within the documentation. This work improved the readability and accessibility of the specification.
workingcopyhttp2ietf
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