[Hipsec-rg] discussion of draft-lee-hip-object-01

[thomas.r.henderson at boeing.com (Henderson, Thomas R)]

All,
In Minneapolis, we also discussed, at length, the Object-to-Object
communications draft:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lee-hip-object-01

The authors are likewise asking the RG for feedback and for whether the
RG would like to adopt this as a work item.

The discussion at the meeting is summarized in the meeting minutes:
https://listserv.cybertrust.com/pipermail/hipsec-rg/2008-December/000538
.html

To summarize the meeting discussion, several people expressed interest
in the basic concept proposed, which is to generalize HIP to allow other
objects (besides internet stacks) to be named, although there was some
debate as to whether the draft proposes the right mechanisms for this.
However, there were also a few comments that the use cases are not well
defined, such that some people had trouble understanding exactly what is
being proposed and why. 

Again, please provide feedback on the draft and on whether you think the
RG should actively work this item.

- Tom