The IESG has requested retraction of this Protocol Action Announcement. The document state has been changed to "Approved-announcement to be sent::AD Followup." Please remove this document from the RFC Editor Queue. Best regards, IESG Secretary On Sep 24, 2014, at 1:29 PM, The IESG wrote: > The IESG has approved the following document: > - 'Host Identity Protocol Version 2 (HIPv2)' > (draft-ietf-hip-rfc5201-bis-19.txt) as Proposed Standard > > This document is the product of the Host Identity Protocol Working > Group. > > The IESG contact persons are Ted Lemon and Brian Haberman. > > A URL of this Internet Draft is: > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hip-rfc5201-bis/ > > > Technical Summary: > > This document specifies the details of the Host Identity Protocol > (HIP). HIP allows consenting hosts to securely establish and > maintain shared IP-layer state, allowing separation of the > identifier and locator roles of IP addresses, thereby enabling > continuity of communications across IP address changes. HIP is > based on a SIGMA- compliant Diffie-Hellman key exchange, using > public key identifiers from a new Host Identity namespace for > mutual peer authentication. The protocol is designed to be > resistant to denial-of-service (DoS) and man-in-the-middle (MitM) > attacks. When used together with another suitable security > protocol, such as the Encapsulated Security Payload (ESP), it > provides integrity protection and optional encryption for > upper-layer protocols, such as TCP and UDP. > > This document obsoletes RFC 5201 and addresses the concerns raised > by the IESG, particularly that of crypto agility. It also > incorporates lessons learned from the implementations of RFC 5201. > > > Working Group Summary: > > There is full 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. > Ted Lemon is the responsible AD.
