RE: HIP draft

["marcelo bagnulo" <mbagnulo@ing.uc3m.es>]

> 2. What mechanism makes it possible for unmodified ULPs to set up
> connections to HIP-capable destinations? I would expect either the
> application to be modified so it knows to ask for the HIP DNS RR, or
> there must be some shady resolver hacks that trick the app and TCP (or
> other ULPs) so they think they're dealing with a regular IPv6 address
> but in effect they're using HIP identifiers and the associated IP
> addresses are recovered at the HIP layer.

My understanding is that the last option is proposed.

>
> And would it be possible to implement HIP in middleboxes so that
> unmodified hosts can talk to HIP boxes?
>

I think so. But the doc states that this will be detailed in another
document.

However, i haven't been able to find it as a item neither in the pwg carter
nor in the prg charter. Shouldn't this be explicitely included?

Regards, marcelo