The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Registration Extension' (draft-ietf-hip-rfc5203-bis-11.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Host Identity Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Suresh Krishnan and Terry Manderson. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hip-rfc5203-bis/ Technical Summary: This document specifies a registration mechanism for the Host Identity Protocol (HIP) that allows hosts to register with services, such as HIP rendezvous servers or middleboxes. This document obsoletes RFC5203. Working Group Summary: There was WG consensus behind this document. Document Quality: As discussed in RFC 6538, there are several implementations of the Experimental HIP specs. At least HIP for Linux and OpenHIP will be updated to comply with the standards-track specs. Personnel Gonzalo Camarillo is the document shepherd. Terry Manderson is the responsible area director.