[Hipsec-rg] comments on draft-heer-hip-middle-auth-01

[Rene.Hummen at rwth-aachen.de ( "René Hummen" )]

Hi,

>As a matter of procedure, there are a few directions the RG can take
>with respect to this or any draft within scope of our charter:
>1) agree to take on the draft as a RG item and try to publish it as a RG
>draft, according to the process being defined in
>http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt
>2) recommend to the HIP WG that they take the draft
>3) decline to take the draft and recommend to the authors to publish it
>as an independent submission
>
>If we agree to 1), we will need to come to some RG consensus on the
>draft and willingness to work on it through the publication process.
>
>Comments?

I recommend it as a WG draft as the security enhancements described in there are necessary for providing secure middlebox functions like the HIP relay, which e.g. is used in the NAT traversal draft.

Ren?