HTTP 2.0 will continue to rely primarily on TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), though other transport mechanisms may be substituted.

Julian Reschkeof, Alexey Melnikov and Martin Thomson for the proposed draft, to be called draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-00. The group is scheduled to submit a proposed standard to the IESG by 2014.

Some have praised the IETF's use of SPDY as a launching point, noting how well it optimizes the delivery of Web server traffic.

"Having a solid standard would be extremely beneficial for the Web community. The work Google did on developing and maintaining the SPDY specification is amazing, however it hasn't really become a standard yet," wrote Andrew Alexeev, co-founder and business director of Web server software company NGINX, which offers open-source, high-performance Web server software of the same name.