Martin Thomson

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Martin Thomson is an engineer at Mozilla. There he works on open standards in both the IETF and W3C. His recent work includes HTTP/2 and Web Push, and he is a core contributor to HTTP, TLS, and WebRTC. He previously worked at Microsoft, Commscope and Nortel on system architecture. Technical interests are privacy, security, and the messy interface where standardized protocols are applied to real problems.

Roles

Chair of Captive Portal Interaction (capport) martin.thomson@gmail.com
Lead of Privacy and Security (privsec) martin.thomson@gmail.com
Member of Internet Architecture Board (iab) martin.thomson@gmail.com
Member of IP Stack Evolution (stackevo) martin.thomson@gmail.com
Member of Privacy and Security (privsec) martin.thomson@gmail.com
Reviewer in ART Area Review Team (artart) martin.thomson@gmail.com

RFCs

rfc5139 Feb 2008 Revised Civic Location Format for Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO)
rfc5491 Mar 2009 GEOPRIV Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO) Usage Clarification, Considerations, and Recommendations
rfc5573 Jun 2009 Asynchronous Channels for the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)
rfc5962 Sep 2010 Dynamic Extensions to the Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO)
rfc5964 Aug 2010 Specifying Holes in Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) Service Boundaries
rfc5986 Sep 2010 Discovering the Local Location Information Server (LIS)
rfc6155 Mar 2011 Use of Device Identity in HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)
rfc6225 Jul 2011 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Options for Coordinate-Based Location Configuration Information
rfc6753 Oct 2012 A Location Dereference Protocol Using HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)
rfc6772 Jan 2013 Geolocation Policy: A Document Format for Expressing Privacy Preferences for Location Information
rfc6848 Jan 2013 Specifying Civic Address Extensions in the Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO)
rfc7035 Oct 2013 Relative Location Representation
rfc7105 Jan 2014 Using Device-Provided Location-Related Measurements in Location Configuration Protocols
rfc7199 Apr 2014 Location Configuration Extensions for Policy Management
rfc7216 Apr 2014 Location Information Server (LIS) Discovery Using IP Addresses and Reverse DNS
rfc7459 Feb 2015 Representation of Uncertainty and Confidence in the Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO)
rfc7540 May 2015 Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)
rfc7568 Jun 2015 Deprecating Secure Sockets Layer Version 3.0
rfc7639 Aug 2015 The ALPN HTTP Header Field
rfc7675 Oct 2015 Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Usage for Consent Freshness
rfc8030 Dec 2016 Generic Event Delivery Using HTTP Push
rfc8164 May 2017 Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2
rfc8188 Jun 2017 Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP
rfc8291 Nov 2017 Message Encryption for Web Push
rfc8292 Nov 2017 Voluntary Application Server Identification (VAPID) for Web Push

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