A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6538 Title: The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Experiment Report Author: T. Henderson, A. Gurtov Status: Informational Stream: IRTF Date: March 2012 Mailbox: thomas.r.henderson@boeing.com, gurtov@ee.oulu.fi Pages: 35 Characters: 88376 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-irtf-hip-experiment-15.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6538.txt This document is a report from the IRTF Host Identity Protocol (HIP) research group documenting the collective experiences and lessons learned from studies, related experimentation, and designs completed by the research group. The document summarizes implications of adding HIP to host protocol stacks, Internet infrastructure, and applications. The perspective of a network operator, as well as a list of HIP experiments, are presented as well. Portions of this report may be relevant also to other network overlay-based architectures or to attempts to deploy alternative networking architectures. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the IRTF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC