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Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Dec 8 13:37:12 2009

From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200912081453.nB8EqnY7011360@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:36:07 +0000
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
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On 2009-12-08, at 14:52, Mark Andrews wrote:

>> Why would "web browsers" have a hot-spot button?
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> Because that would be a easy way to implement this sort of thing.

I once thought that PANA was the clean answer to this.

Now the PANA effort has concluded, and documents have been published, =
but reading through them I can't tell whether PANA is in fact any kind =
of answer to this.

  RFC 4058
  RFC 5191

It'd be nice if there was a hotspot authentication solution buried in =
there, somewhere.


Joe

Begin forwarded message:

> From: IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
> Date: 4 December 2009 21:30:03 GMT
> To: ietf-announce@ietf.org
> Cc: pana@ietf.org, basavaraj.patil@nokia.com
> Subject: WG Action: Conclusion of Protocol for carrying Authentication =
for Network Access (pana)=20
> list-id: "IETF announcement list. No discussions." =
<ietf-announce.ietf.org>
>=20
> The Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access (pana) =
working
> group in the Internet Area has concluded.
>=20
> The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Ralph Droms.
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> The mailing list will remain active.
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> This working group is closed after successfully completing its =
chartered
> work. The mailing list will be kept open for possible questions and
> discussions around PANA. In addition, several remaining documents =
about
> PANA extensions have been submitted for the individual submission =
process.
> The documents will progressed as soon as their necessary revisions =
become
> available.
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> The ADs would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the PANA
> specification work, the chairs, Mark Townsley who was the responsible =
AD
> when the PANA base documents were published, and various reviewers who
> helped greatly improve the PANA specifications.
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