On 2009-12-08, at 14:52, Mark Andrews wrote:
Why would "web browsers" have a hot-spot button?
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) list-id: "IETF announcement list. No discussions." <ietf-announce.ietf.org>
The Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access (pana) working group in the Internet Area has concluded.
The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Ralph Droms.
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