[Hipsec] Need to close all draft-ietf-hip-dex-21 pending issues... before 2021-Jan-13...

["Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <[e-mail]>]

Dear HIP, dear authors,

This document was requested for publication [1] in February 2018 (2.5 years ago), then its IESG evaluation has been deferred, then I took over this document from Terry Manderson in March 2019, then it went again through IESG evaluation in July 2020 and there are still DISCUSS points to be addressed even after a couple of revised I-D...

Difficult not to observe that this document does not progress very fast.

Moreover, this document is a normative reference for rfc4423-bis waiting in the RFC editor queue since March 2019... So, also blocking the HIP-NAT document [2].

After discussion with the HIP chair, Gonzalo in cc, we have taken the following decision: if a revised I-D addressing remaining DISCUSS points + Ekr’s ones is not uploaded within 2 months (13th of January 2021), then I will request the HIP WG to accept the complete removal of section A.3.3 of the rfc4423-bis document (1 page about HIP-DEX in the appendix) + the reference to the HIP-DEX document [3]. This will allow the immediate publication of the rfc4423-bis and HIP-NAT documents.

The HIP DEX authors may also select to change the intended status of the document to ‘experimental’ (if the HIP WG agrees) as this may reduce the security requirements by the SEC AD and Ekr.

Gonzalo and I are still hoping to get a revised HIP-DEX shortly,

Regards

-éric

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hip-dex/history/
[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/cluster_info.php?cid=C386
[3] and possibly I will set the state of HIP-DEX as ‘dead’ on the datatracker