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Re: Public Wireless access (ticket / token / schedule based)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Tue Dec 28 11:37:36 2010

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:37:32 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
In-Reply-To: <011301cba6aa$e750bb70$b5f23250$@net>
Cc: "'Robert E. Seastrom'" <rs@seastrom.com>, nanog@nanog.org,
	'Bill Lewis' <blewis@hottopic.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 12/28/2010 11:18 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote:
> Leave things wide open on a sandboxed subnet with the usual protections
> (rate limits, blocked ports), IMO is the easiest approach...

One concern in higher ed that was amplified by CALEA was the notion that
an "open" network precluded you from the private network exemption.  So
"free open unauthenticated WiFi" carries some excess baggage with it.

Jeff


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