[Hipsec] What is in a name -- HMAC HIP Parameter

[Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]>]

I do not like naming this parameter HMAC and HMAC2:

Eventhough according to draft-irtf-cfrg-kdf-uses-00.txt, we can only use 
HMAC (D-H derived key is NOT uniformly distributed), There may be a 
future hkdf that is NOT HMAC that is secure to use with a D-H derived 
key, or a different key derivation method is used.

This parameter is really the MAC operation of SIGMA compliance, which is 
currently achieved via HMAC.

So I offer two possible alternative parameter names:

HIP_MAC and HIP_MAC2

or

HIP_MIC and HIP_MIC2

The alternative 'MIC' TLA stands for Message Integrity Check.  This 
comes out of the IEEE 802 community that already had a MAC and needed a 
different TLA.

Hum 1)

Change HMAC to HIP-MxC

Hum 2)

x :== A  or  x:== I