Re: [Hipsec] Noticed a 2012 patent application with respect to HIP and HIT handling -- has patent sillyness started for HIP?

Miika Komu <mkomu@cs.hut.fi> Wed, 13 June 2012 05:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Hipsec] Noticed a 2012 patent application with respect to HIP and HIT handling -- has patent sillyness started for HIP?
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Hi,

althought the patent does not mention privacy, the patent appears to be 
about changing the HITs (not really about IP addresses). This further 
points out to the sketchy UPDATE portion of blind-based privacy:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zhang-hip-privacy-protection-03#section-4.2

I should note that there's predating related prior art on changing HITs 
from 2004:

http://hipl.infrahip.net/papers/appmob.pdf

"Application Mobility with HIP": Teemu Koponen, Andrei Gurtov, Pekka 
Nikander

On 06/12/2012 11:49 PM, Darren Lissimore wrote:
> Ran across this patent application while looking for a HIP reference,
>
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2012/0072513.html
>
> pertains to new HIT delivery.
>
> Hope this is not the start of patent sillyness for all things HIP related.
>
> Anyone seen this can care to comment?
>
>
> Darren
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