On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Joe Abley wrote:
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. It'd be nice if there was a hotspot authentication solution buried in there, somewhere.
I know nothing about PANA except that abstract to RFC 4058 says it's a generalized replacement for link-layer authentication protocols such as 802.1x. But 802.1x wifi authentication works today - see for example http://www.eduroam.org/ - though the setup effort is only worth it if you are going to be using the authenticated network(s) a lot. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.