Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-hip-base-03.txt

From: Bruce Lilly <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:00:45 -0400

On Thu June 23 2005 18:50, [email-masked] wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Host Identity Protocol Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title		: Host Identity Protocol
> 	Author(s)	: R. Moskowitz, et al.
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-hip-base-03.txt
> 	Pages		: 96
> 	Date		: 2005-6-23
> 	
> This memo specifies the details of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP).
>    HIP provides a rapid exchange of Host Identities (public keys)
>    between hosts and uses a Sigma-compliant [REF] Diffie-Hellman key
>    exchange to establish shared secrets between such endpoints.  The
>    protocol is designed to be resistant to Denial-of-Service (DoS) and
>    Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, and when used together with another
>    suitable security protocol, such as Encapsulated Security Payload
>    (ESP) [24], it provides encryption and/or authentication protection
>    for upper layer protocols such as TCP and UDP, while enabling
>    continuity of communications across network layer address changes.
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-hip-base-03.txt

Brief comments:

1. The Abstract isn't supposed to contain references.

2. It is helpful to indicate a suggested forum for discussion
   (the Abstract is a good place)

3. Numeric references are deprecated
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/pipermail/rfc-interest/2005-January/000235.html

4. The introduction refers to an architecture document, reference #25:
   [25]  Moskowitz, R., "Host Identity Protocol Architecture",
         draft-moskowitz-hip-arch-03 (work in progress), May 2003.

   Given the date, I strongly suspected expiration; I checked the I-D
   database:
   https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/idindex.cgi?command=id_detail&id=4950
   which shows a -06 version as the latest, also expired, and therefore no
   link to retrieve the document.  Dead End.

5. Appendices (the draft's contain reference citations) should appear
   before the Normative/Informative references.

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