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T. Henderson
A. Gurtov

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6538

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Abstract

This document is a report from the IRTF Host Identity Protocol (HIP)research group documenting the collective experiences and lessonslearned from studies, related experimentation, and designs completedby the research group. The document summarizes implications ofadding HIP to host protocol stacks, Internet infrastructure, andapplications. The perspective of a network operator, as well as alist of HIP experiments, are presented as well. Portions of thisreport may be relevant also to other network overlay-basedarchitectures or to attempts to deploy alternative networkingarchitectures. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

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