WebSocket Protocol published as RFC

The WebSocket protocol received its RFC number and is published in the IETF official library as RFC 6455 . This means that the draft specification is recognized as quite successful, generally stable and suitable for standardization. Its fate will be monitored by the IETF organization, and there are two phases ahead of the potential standard. After the “proposed standard”, the improvements that the community will present will be considered, then the RFC document can receive the “draft” status (draft standard) and, eventually, can be recognized as a full-fledged Internet Standard (STD) - from several thousand candidates to such status survived only 72 .

WebSocket is a bidirectional communication protocol between a browser and a web server. The protocol includes a description of the client's request and the server's response to establishing a connection, as well as the basic design of messages sent over a TCP connection.

Using WebSocket, you can create interactive browser-based web applications that constantly communicate with the server, but do not need to open several HTTP connections, like XMLHttpRequest or <iframe> 's.
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The authors of RFC 6455 are Yan Fette from the Google Security Team and Alexey Melnikov (isode.com).