{"id":62202,"date":"2016-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2016\/02\/08\/martin-thomson-appointed-to-the-internet-architecture-board\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:42:08","slug":"martin-thomson-appointed-to-the-internet-architecture-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/martin-thomson-appointed-to-the-internet-architecture-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Thomson Appointed to the Internet Architecture Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Standards are a key part of keeping the Open Web open. The Web runs on standards developed mainly by two standards bodies: the World Wide Web Consortium (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W3C<\/a>), which standardizes HTML and Web APIs, and the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)<\/a>, which standardizes networking protocols, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HTTP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transport_Layer_Security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TLS<\/a>, the core transport protocols for the Web. I\u2019m pleased to announce that Martin Thomson, from the CTO group, was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/datatracker.ietf.org\/nomcom\/ann\/82148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appointed<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Architecture Board (IAB<\/a>), the committee responsible for the architectural oversight of the IETF standards process.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Martin\u2019s appointment recognizes a long history of major contributions to the Internet standards process: including serving as editor for <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc7540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HTTP\/2<\/a>, the newest and much improved version of HTTP, helping to design, implement, and document WebPush, which we just <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/firefox-can-now-get-push-notifications-from-your-favorite-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched<\/a> in Firefox, and playing major roles in WebRTC, TLS and Geolocation. In addition to his standards work, Martin has committed code all over Gecko, in areas ranging from the WebRTC stack to NSS. Serving on the IAB will give Martin a platform to do even greater things for the Internet and the Open Web as a whole.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"im\">Please join me in congratulating Martin.<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standards are a key part of keeping the Open Web open. The Web runs on standards developed mainly by two standards bodies: the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which standardizes HTML and Web APIs, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which standardizes networking protocols, such as HTTP and TLS, the core transport protocols for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Martin Thomson Appointed to the Internet Architecture Board<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/martin-thomson-appointed-to-the-internet-architecture-board\/\" \/>\n<script 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