[Hipsec-rg] Routable IP addresses as LSIs

[[e-mail] (Pekka Nikander)]

Tom,

> 3.   draft-henderson-hip-applications-01.txt
>
> Pekka suggested that this is soon ready for individual submission
> (Informational).  Please email the list with your comments, even if it
> is to say "I read the draft and have no comments."

I am starting to think that we probably should start pushing routable  
IP addresses as LSIs, together with opportunistic HIP, for certain  
uses.  In other words, our work on this draft has finally been able  
to change my mind on this. :-)  We might want to call this "invisible  
HIP", as whether there is HIP underneath or not is invisible to  
applications.

I am planning to take this up during the shim6 interim in Amsterdam,  
tomorrow and on Sunday, with the goal of shim6 and this "invisible  
HIP" being semantically compatible with each other.  I'm afraid that  
the actual HIP base exchange protocol is still far too heavy for  
shim6, but I am hoping that we could share much of the path status  
maintenance and packet transport mechanisms for non-ESP case.

--Pekka