[Hipsec-rg] HIPRG report

From: Andrei Gurtov <gurtov(at)cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 05:09:23 EST

HIP Research Group Report
December 2005

The HIP RG has seen cyclical activity centered around IETF meetings. The RG met on the afternoon of Nov. 11, 2005 (after IETF 64 meeting), with 40 attendees. Three new drafts were reviewed; one on the use of SIP presence data to convey HITs, one describing possible operator issues with deploying HIP, and one on the use of a TCP option for opportunistic HIP. In addition, the RG heard about updates to the legacy NAT/middlebox traversal draft, the HIP-aware middlebox traversal draft, the draft on the use of SRTP as a HIP transport, and the draft on using SIP to convey host identities.

The RG's primary chartered output is an "Experiment Report" to the IESG describing the impact of deploying HIP. This draft has not been advanced since the last quarter; the chairs agreed to do so before the next meeting cycle. The meeting and mailing list agreed that draft-tschofenig-hiprg-hip-natfw-traversal-03.txt (problem statement for HIP-aware middleboxes) could be advanced to the state of RG draft. Prior to IETF-64, the RG agreed to make draft-stiemerling-hip-nat-05.txt (problem statement for HIP-unaware middleboxes) a RG draft.

The chairs continue to encourage experimentation with one of the three open source implementations of HIP. The HIIT project reports that several events with industry, including Ericsson, TeliaSonera, Nokia, and Symbian, are in progress. Also, there have been several protocol extensions to the OpenHIP project submitted by various researchers.

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