Technical Summary
This document specifies a new Network Address Translator (NAT)
traversal mode for the Host Identity Protocol (HIP). The new mode is
based on the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) methodology
and UDP encapsulation of data and signaling traffic. The main
difference from the previously specified modes is the use of HIP
messages for all NAT traversal procedures.
Justification is provided on why plain ICE is not performant enough when combined with HIP.
Working Group Summary
There was WG consensus behind this document.
Document Quality
As discussed in RFC 6538, there are several implementations of the
Experimental HIP specs. Therefore, RFC 5770 (HIP Extensions for
Traversal of NATs) has been implemented. Nevertheless, at this
point we do not know of any plans to implement the deltas over RFC
5770 this specification defines.
Personnel
Gonzalo Camarillo is the document shepherd.
Éric Vyncke is the responsible area director.