Autumn 2004 ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Roy Fielding Who are you and what are you working on?

Roy Fielding, working on the web now for a very long time Where do you come from?

I was born in Southern California. Grew up close to a beach. My father is from New Zealand My mother is from the Los Angelas area. How did you get involved with Open Source

I did changes to various tools being used for the web and also the Mosaic webbrowser when it came out first. 1993 when I installed web-tools. I did statistical work at the University as a graduate student. Got bored out of mind. So I started to look for other things to do. 00:01:04I got involved into a class project to work on the web. 00:01:1400:05:13:11At the time the web was considered a new toy and it wasn't seriously used. It was recognized as being intersting but there wasn't a lot of work on it in term of tools 00:02:15Oskar Nearstrass, I actually met him in Geneva at a web-conference I basicall took his Open Source scripts which he has developed and put them into a library called www-perl This got me involved in basically understanding what standards mean and find better ways to explain them 00:03:13and also interacting with developers in Open Source projects In October 94 I talked to him (Tim Berners Lee) about protocols and that was the point when the W3C was thinking about who is going to write the standards for the IETF. 00:04:12I voluteered to be an editor on the standards. I had the foolishess to take it on. Who are you working for? 00:04:40I work for Day Software who is located here in Switzerland. I am the chief scientist. I spend a lot of thinking and talking. ??? I wanted to finish my dissertation before I would leave grad school. I couldn't do everything at the same time: the commercial side of the web, my dissertation and the work on the standards. I didn't get into the commercial side of the web until the end of 99.