Subject: [Hipsec] draft-ietf-hip-dex-24 need multiple changes

From: "Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:46:27 +0000

Bob, René, Miika, dear HIP WG members,

The HIP-DEX went through a third (!) IESG evaluation this Thursday and it was not approved.

The document clearly needs to change its intended status to experimental from standard track. This will clear some DISCUSS points but not all: many of them will still need to be addressed (notably the crypto-related ones).

The point about ‘is it really required to drop security from HIP-BEX ?’ was also raised by several ADs. In short, the usefulness of HIP-DEX is clearly questioned. This could be addressed by either declaring this document ‘dead’ (won’t be published) or providing actual performance numbers on real implementation on recent CPU (hint such as those used in drones).

As you will see, I am sending this hip-dex document back to the HIP WG to fix the above points (another IETF Last Call will be required once the changes are written). I am also taking actions to release the NAT traversal and the 4423-bis documents waiting in the RFC Editor queue.

Can we get from the authors an estimation of the resolution of all above points ? (including the actual performance numbers)

Sorry for bringing bad news...

Regards

-éric