[hiprg] A question of the identity privacy

[Dacheng Zhang <[e-mail]>]

Hello, everyone:

I just read a paper “BLIND: A Complete Identity Protection Framework for
End-points” which proposes a solution to protect the privacy of HITs of
both communicating hosts. I believe that the privacy protection of HITs is
desired in many scenarios. But, I am a bit concerned whether BLIND is
suitable in a client/server model. Normally, a server should public its
access information to DNS, and it may not make a big sense to protect the
identity and location privacy of a server. Apart from Blind, I didn't find
any other papers about the identity privacy issues with HIP. 

Here, I have three questions. First, do you think the identity privacy
protection can be desired for HIP? If it is, do you think it is a good idea
to propose a simplified protocol as a complement of BLIND, which only
protects the identity privacy of the initiator? In addition, do you know
whether there is any other related work？ 

Cheers

Dacheng