"...Dr. Fielding's keynote entitled 'The Rest of REST' will highlight the advantages of developing software based on the Representational State Transfer (REST) model for web interactions. REST has received a great deal of industry attention as an alternative to SOAP-style Web Services, and stems directly from Fielding's doctoral thesis.[...] Dr. Fielding is best known for his work in developing and defining the modern World Wide Web infrastructure. He is the primary architect of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1), co-author of the Internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), and a founder of several open-source software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server Project. Day Software's products leverage architectural improvements at the access-layer level to make REST-style interactions with content faster and easier..."