Martin Thomson

Martin Thomson is an engineer at Mozilla. There he works on open standards in both the IETF and W3C. His recent work includes QUIC, HTTP/2 and Web Push, and he is a core contributor to QUIC, 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 Tools Architecture and Strategy Team (tools-arch)	mt@lowentropy.net
Chair of Captive Portal Interaction (capport)	mt@lowentropy.net
Liaison Member of IAB/IESG Nominating Committee 2019/2020 (nomcom2019)	mt@lowentropy.net
Reviewer in ART Area Review Team (artart)	mt@lowentropy.net

RFCs (30)

rfc5139	Feb 2008	Revised Civic Location Format for Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO) Cited by 16 RFCs
rfc5491	Mar 2009	GEOPRIV Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO) Usage Clarification, Considerations, and Recommendations Cited by 21 RFCs
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) Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc5964	Aug 2010	Specifying Holes in Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) Service Boundaries Cited by 1 RFC
rfc5986	Sep 2010	Discovering the Local Location Information Server (LIS) Cited by 9 RFCs
rfc6155	Mar 2011	Use of Device Identity in HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD) Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc6225	Jul 2011	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Options for Coordinate-Based Location Configuration Information Cited by 8 RFCs
rfc6753	Oct 2012	A Location Dereference Protocol Using HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD) Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc6772	Jan 2013	Geolocation Policy: A Document Format for Expressing Privacy Preferences for Location Information Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc6848	Jan 2013	Specifying Civic Address Extensions in the Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO) Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7035	Oct 2013	Relative Location Representation Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7105	Jan 2014	Using Device-Provided Location-Related Measurements in Location Configuration Protocols Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7199	Apr 2014	Location Configuration Extensions for Policy Management
rfc7216	Apr 2014	Location Information Server (LIS) Discovery Using IP Addresses and Reverse DNS Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7459	Feb 2015	Representation of Uncertainty and Confidence in the Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO) Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7540	May 2015	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2) Cited by 31 RFCs
rfc7568	Jun 2015	Deprecating Secure Sockets Layer Version 3.0 Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc7639	Aug 2015	The ALPN HTTP Header Field
rfc7675	Oct 2015	Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Usage for Consent Freshness Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8030	Dec 2016	Generic Event Delivery Using HTTP Push Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc8164	May 2017	Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2 Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc8188	Jun 2017	Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8291	Nov 2017	Message Encryption for Web Push Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc8292	Nov 2017	Voluntary Application Server Identification (VAPID) for Web Push Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc8448	Jan 2019	Example Handshake Traces for TLS 1.3 Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8449	Aug 2018	Record Size Limit Extension for TLS
rfc8470	Sep 2018	Using Early Data in HTTP Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8752	Mar 2020	Report from the IAB Workshop on Exploring Synergy between Content Aggregation and the Publisher Ecosystem (ESCAPE) Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8874	Aug 2020	Working Group GitHub Usage Guidance Cited by 1 RFC

Martin Thomson

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RFCs (30)

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