Re: status of hip

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

my view, based on reading the HIP drafts 2+ years ago....

applications need to be aware that they're using HIP in order to get any 
use out of HIP. It's not a TCP replacement.

so, applications that find HIP useful will use HIP. Application that do 
not, will not. Just like SCTP or DCCP.

And when it's clear that there will be applications that are intending to 
use it, the proponents may ask the IETF to standardize it, and the IETF 
needs to evaluate whether it should do so (and I'm quite close to saying 
"....and should say YES").

                  Harald


--On 14. juli 2003 13:53 +0200 Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Mostly a question. Should the IETF be doing anything with HIP? Who is
> tracking it and following the work?
>
> At each IETF, I run into folk (including some I consider clueful) that
> are working on it or doing something related to it and that think it
> solves something and/or is pretty neat. I even ran into someone
> yesterday who says they have implemented it and are planning on
> deploying it as part of building a large wireless WAN.
>
> At the risk of saying something impolite, I recall somene saying a
> while back that HIP was a solution in search of a problem, and until
> there is a concrete problem for it to solve, the IETF doesn't need to
> do anything with it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thomas