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Francesca Palombini

Francesca Palombini is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research in Stockholm, Sweden, where she has worked on infrastructure protocols for constrained node networks, with a focus on defining and standardizing security protocols for the Internet of Things. Francesca has served as co-chair of the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR), the Security Dispatch (Secdispatch) and the General Area Dispatch (Gendispatch) working groups, as well as part of the Internet of Things and Security Directorates. Francesca was selected as Applications and Real-Time (ART) Area Director in 2021.

Francesca has a background in embedded systems and software. She holds a Master of Science in Information and Communication Technology engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, and a Master of Science in Embedded Systems and Software from Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), Grenoble, France.

Roles

Role	Group	Email
Area Director	Web and Internet Transport (wit)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	Content Delivery Networks Interconnection (cdni)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	HTTP (httpbis)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	Serialising Extended Data About Times and Events (sedate)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	HTTP Directorate (httpdir)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	WebRTC Ingest Signaling over HTTPS (wish)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	Constrained RESTful Environments (core)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	Oblivious HTTP Application Intermediation (ohai)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	WebTransport (webtrans)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	A Semantic Definition Format for Data and Interactions of Things (asdf)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director	Building Blocks for HTTP APIs (httpapi)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Chair	Web and Internet Transport Area Open Meeting (witarea)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Chair	HTTP Directorate (httpdir)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Reviewer	Internet of Things Directorate (iotdir)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Reviewer	Security Area Directorate (secdir)	francesca.palombini@ericsson.com

External Resources

Name	Value
GitHub Username	fpalombini
GitLab Username	fpalombini

RFCs (3)

RFC	Date	Title	Cited by
RFC 8613	Jul 2019	Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE)	18 RFCs
RFC 9203	Aug 2022	The Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE) Profile of the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) Framework	3 RFCs
RFC 9528	Mar 2024	Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)	2 RFCs

Active Internet-Drafts (11)

Expired Internet-Drafts (20)