Host Identity Protocol

The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) provides a method of separating the end-point identifier and locator roles of IP addresses. It introduces a new Host Identity (HI) name space, based on public keys. The public keys are typically, but not necessarily, self generated.

HIP is being specified in the IETF's HIP working group. An IRTF HIP research group looks at the broader impacts of HIP.

List of implementations

• HIP for BSD Project
• HIP for Linux
• OpenHIP

External links

• IETF working group
• IRTF research group
• How HIP works