RFC 6537

"Host Identity Protocol Distributed Hash Table Interface", February 2012

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6537.txt
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Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Author:

J. Ahrenholz

Stream:

IRTF

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Abstract

This document specifies a common interface for using the Host Identity Protocol (HIP) with a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) service to provide a name-to-Host-Identity-Tag lookup service and a Host- Identity-Tag-to-address lookup service. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.