The IESG has received a request from the Host Identity Protocol WG (hip) to consider the following document: - 'Host Identity Protocol-Based Overlay Networking Environment (HIP BONE) Instance Specification for REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD)' <draft-ietf-hip-reload-instance-08.txt> as Experimental RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-09-30. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document is the Host Identity Protocol-Based Overlay Networking Environment (HIP BONE) instance specification for the REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) protocol. The document provides the details needed to build a RELOAD-based overlay that uses HIP. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hip-reload-instance/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hip-reload-instance/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.