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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 JSON Path (jsonpath) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Applications and Real-Time Area (art) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Serialising Extended Data About Times and Events (sedate) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Dispatch (dispatch) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director HTTP (httpbis) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Using TLS in Applications (uta) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Calendaring Extensions (calext) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Concise Binary Object Representation Maintenance and Extensions (cbor) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director ART Area Review Team (artart) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Oblivious HTTP Application Intermediation (ohai) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director HTTP Directorate (httpdir) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Constrained RESTful Environments (core) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Area Director Content Delivery Networks Interconnection (cdni) 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 HTTP Directorate (httpdir) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Chair ART Area Review Team (artart) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Chair Applications and Real-Time Area Open Meeting (artarea) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Reviewer Security Area Directorate (secdir) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Reviewer Internet of Things Directorate (iotdir) francesca.palombini@ericsson.com

External Resources

Name Value
GitHub Username fpalombini
GitLab Username fpalombini

RFCs (2)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 8613 Jul 2019 Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE) 15 RFCs
RFC 9203 Aug 2022 The Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE) Profile of the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) Framework 2 RFCs

Active Internet-Drafts (12)

Expired Internet-Drafts (19)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity