Mike Bishop
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Mike Bishop

Mike Bishop is a Principal Architect at Akamai Technologies. He was editor of HTTP/3 (RFC 9114) and co-author of SVCB (RFC 9460), as well as being an active contributor to work on HTTP/2, QUIC, and various other protocols in WIT and related areas. Prior to being selected as Area Director, he served on the HTTP Directorate.

Mike holds a Bachelor’s degree from Clemson University and a Master’s from Purdue University. He lives in Cincinnati with his lovely wife, two quirky kids, and two cats who eat things they shouldn't.

Roles

Role Group Email
Area Director Web Bot Auth (webbotauth) [email protected]
Area Director Building Blocks for HTTP APIs (httpapi) [email protected]
Area Director HTTP Directorate (httpdir) [email protected]
Area Director Oblivious HTTP Application Intermediation (ohai) [email protected]
Area Director Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) [email protected]
Area Director Constrained RESTful Environments (core) [email protected]
Area Director HTTP (httpbis) [email protected]
Area Director Multiplexed Application Substrate over QUIC Encryption (masque) [email protected]
Area Director Media Over QUIC (moq) [email protected]
Area Director AI Preferences (aipref) [email protected]
Area Director Web and Internet Transport (wit) [email protected]
Area Director WebTransport (webtrans) [email protected]
Area Director WebRTC Ingest Signaling over HTTPS (wish) [email protected]
Area Director Web and Internet Transport Area Open Meeting (witarea) [email protected]
Chair HTTP Directorate (httpdir) [email protected]
Chair Web and Internet Transport Area Open Meeting (witarea) [email protected]
Liaison Member Nominating Committee 2025/2026 (nomcom2025) [email protected]
Reviewer (See reviews) HTTP Directorate (httpdir) [email protected]

External Resources

Name Value
GitHub Username MikeBishop

RFCs (5)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 9114 Jun 2022 HTTP/3 12 RFCs
RFC 9204 Jun 2022 QPACK: Field Compression for HTTP/3 3 RFCs
RFC 9412 Jun 2023 The ORIGIN Extension in HTTP/3
RFC 9440 Jul 2023 Client-Cert HTTP Header Field
RFC 9460 Nov 2023 Service Binding and Parameter Specification via the DNS (SVCB and HTTPS Resource Records) 5 RFCs

Active Internet-Drafts (5)

Expired Internet-Drafts (30)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity