Host Identity Protocol (hip) ---------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2006-05-22 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): David Ward Gonzalo Camarillo Internet Area Director(s): Jari Arkko Mark Townsley Internet Area Advisor: Mark Townsley 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. The specifications for the architecture and protocol details for these mechanisms consist of: draft-moskowitz-hip-arch-05.txt (at RFC editor) and draft-moskowitz-hip-08.txt (soon -09.txt) There are five publicly known, interoperating 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. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | The purpose of this Working Group is to define the | | minimal infrastructure 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, to complete the existing work on basic mobility and multi-homing, 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. It is expected that there will be a roughly parallel, though perhaps considerably broader, IRTF Research Group that will include efforts both on developing the more forward looking aspects of the HIP architecture and on exploring the effects that HIP may have on the applications and the Internet. The following are charter items for the working group: 1) Complete the HIP base protocol specification. Starting point: draft-moskowitz-hip-08.txt (or newer) 2) Complete the basic mobility and multi-homing support for HIP. Starting point: draft-nikander-hip-mm-01.txt (or newer) While this work partially overlaps the work in Mobile IP and Multi6 Working Groups, it is very different in the sense that is based on the Experimental HIP specification, and cannot function without it. 3) Define one or more new DNS Resource Records for storing HIP related data, such as Host Identifiers and Host Identity Tags (HITs). This task explicitly excludes the task of defining reverse DNS entries based on HITs. 4) Define a basic HIP rendezvous mechanism. A basic HIP rendezvous server allows mobile and non-mobile HIP hosts to register their current IP addresses at the server. Other hosts can then send the initial I1 packets to the rendezvous server, which forwards the packets to the HIP host's current address. This task explicitly excludes solving more general problems, such as the referral problem. Also excluded is the problem of finding the right rendezvous server. It is expected that the DNS records will be used for that. The Working Group bases all the work on the HIP achitecture specification (as defined above). 5) Complete the HIP Architecture specification Starting point: draft-moskowitz-hip-arch-06.txt Goals and Milestones: Done First version of the HIP basic mobility and multi-homing mechanism specification. Done First version of the HIP DNS resource record(s) specification. Done First version of the HIP basic rendezvous mechanism specification. Done WGLC on the HIP architecture specification Done Submit the HIP architecture specification to the IESG Done WG LC on the base protocol specification Done WG LC on the ESP usage specification 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. Jan 2006 Recharter or close the WG. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Jun 2004 Jun 2006 Host Identity Protocol Oct 2004 Jun 2006 End-Host Mobility and Multihoming with the Host Identity Protocol Oct 2004 Sep 2006 Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Domain Name System (DNS) Extensions Oct 2004 Jun 2006 Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Rendezvous Extension Jul 2005 Oct 2006 Using ESP transport format with HIP Sep 2005 Jun 2006 Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Registration Extension Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC4423 I May 2006 Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Architecture