On this day, 15 years ago the http-state working group was created in #IETF. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2009/01/09/ietf-http-state-group-created/

27 months later the cookie RFC 6265 was published: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/04/28/the-cookie-rfc-6265/

This spec is now being revised. The latest draft is called -13 and lives here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis-13

Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism

This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields. These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state (called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP pr…

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Woohoo! #IETF #RFC9460 has been published: "Service Binding and Parameter Specification via the #DNS (#SVCB and #HTTPS Resource Records)". https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9460.html

Thank you to everyone has supported and contributed to this over the past almost nine years since the initial seeds were planted during discussions at a TLS 1.3 interim meeting.

SVCB has potential to have substantial impact across a wide range of Internet protocols. I'm thrilled to see how many drafts are already building on it.