A modified charter has been submitted for the Host Identity Protocol (hip) working group in the Internet Area of the IETF. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The modified charter is provided below for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by October 23rd. +++ Host Identity Protocol (hip) ---------------------------- Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): David Ward <dward@cisco.com> Gonzalo Camarillo <gonzalo.camarillo@ericsson.com> Internet Area Director(s): Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net> Mark Townsley <townsley@cisco.com> Internet Area Advisor: Mark Townsley <townsley@cisco.com> Mailing Lists: General Discussion: hipsec@ietf.org To Subscribe: http://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/hipsec Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hipsec/index.html Description of Working Group: The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) provides a method of separating the end-point identifier and locator roles of IP addresses. It introduces a new Host Identity (HI) name space, based on public keys. The public keys are typically, but not necessarily, self generated. There are five publicly known interoperating HIP implementations, some of which are open source. Currently, the HIP base protocol works well with any pair of co-operating end-hosts. However, to be more useful and more widely deployable, HIP needs some support from the existing infrastructure, including the DNS, and a new piece of infrastructure, called the HIP rendezvous server. Additionally, in order to facilitate experimenting with HIP, there is a need to study the interactions of HIP with legacy NATS and legacy applications, and to describe an API for HIP. +----------------------------------------------------------+ | The purpose of this Working Group is to define the | | minimal elements that are needed for HIP experimentation | | on a wide scale. | +----------------------------------------------------------+ In particular, the objective of this working group is to complete the base protocol specification, define one or more DNS resource records for storing HIP related data, complete the existing work on basic mobility and multi-homing, complete the work on NATs and on APIs, and produce Experimental RFCs for these. Note that even though the specifications are chartered for Experimental, it is understood that their quality and security properties should match the standards track requirements. The main purpose for producing Experimental documents instead of standards track ones are the unknown effects that the mechanisms may have on applications and on the Internet in the large. There is a roughly parallel, though perhaps considerably broader, IRTF Research Group that includes efforts both on developing the more forward looking aspects of the HIP architecture and on exploring the effects that HIP may have on applications and the Internet. Goals and Milestones: Mark as "Done" the following existing milestones: Oct 2005 WGLC the HIP registration extensions specification Oct 2005 WGLC the HIP DNS resource record(s) specification Oct 2005 WG LC on the basic HIP rendezvous mechanism specification. Nov 2005 Submit the ESP usage specification to the IESG for Experimental Nov 2005 Submit the base protocol specification to the IESG for Experimental Nov 2005 WG LC on the HIP basic mobility and multi-homing specification. Dec 2005 Submit the HIP registration extensions specification for Experimental Dec 2005 Submit the HIP DNS resource record(s) specification to the IESG for Experimental. Dec 2005 Submit the HIP basic mobility and multihoming specification to the IESG for Experimental. Dec 2005 Submit the basic HIP rendezvous mechanism specification to the IESG for Experimental. Add the following new milestones: Jan 2007 WGLC Legacy NAT traversal specification Jan 2007 WGLC Legacy Application Interworking specification Jan 2007 WGLC Native API specification Mar 2007 Submit the Legacy NAT traversal specification to the IESG Mar 2007 Submit the Legacy Application Interworking specification to the IESG Mar 2007 Submit Native API specification to the IESG Change the date of the following milestone to "Apr 2007" Jan 2006 Recharter or close the WG _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
