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> It would be 18 more years before a new version of HTTP was released. In 2015, and with much fanfare, RFC 7540 would standardize HTTP/2 as the next major versi

> It would be 18 more years before a new version of HTTP was released. In 2015, and with much fanfare, RFC 7540 would standardize HTTP/2 as the next major version of the protocol. Huh, this is interesting. So the current timescale is like: HTTP/1: 1996 (though HTTP/1.1 came out in 1997) HTTP/2: 2015 HTTP/3: 2021 (current draft) Should we expect HTTP/4 around 2022 or 2023, at this increasing rate of progress, then? Just a bit of extrapolation, since it seems like the rate of progress and new versions to deal with is increasing. Promising, but possibly worrying.

azlen 5y ago
From what I've read about it, one of the exciting things about QUIC and HTTP/3 is that they're much more extensible. Meaning anyone might be able to dabble and experiment with their own version of the protocol. So yes, I'd think the rate of progress may well increase. Not all will become standards, but I imagine we might see HTTP/3.1, 3.2, etc. long before we see an entirely new version like HTTP/4