Subject: [hiprg] closing the HIP research group

From: "Henderson, Thomas R" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:42:50 -0700

We have had a productive eight years of work in the HIP research group, but due to waning activity and in consultation with the IRTF chair, we have decided to bring the research group to a close.

The HIP research group had a long, productive run, meeting at almost every IETF since IETF 59 (March 2004).  We published three RFCs in the IRTF document stream (RFCs 5207, 6237, 6238), and a few of the HIP working group RFCs (e.g. RFCs 5770, 6253) were first discussed in the RG before transitioning to the WG.  We also provided a forum for dozens of other presentations of individual submissions, thesis work, open source software updates, demos, and experiments related to HIP.

We have three RG drafts that are not yet ready for IRTF stream submission, and we have not been able to move them forward recently in the research group, so we would like to revert those drafts to the authors and ask them to either pursue them as individual submissions or to submit them for consideration as HIP working group documents. 

We would like to thank everyone who has participated and contributed in these efforts over the years.  Please direct future discussions relating to HIP to the HIP working group mailing list.

Thank you,
Tom and Andrei