+1. Cheers,
> On 30 Jun 2015, at 4:10 pm, Martin Thomson <martin.thom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 23 June 2015 at 11:26, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote: >> We would like to get a discussion going on some *strawman* charter text. > > I realize that this might be a little controversial, but I really > don't like the term "captive portal". I think that a valuable product > of this working group would be a thing that accomplishes the goal that > captive portals set out to achieve, without the MitM. > > Currently, this charter bemoans the current status where MitM is the > only real option, but does not set out to create a situation that is > materially different. I'd like to see it say something more > definitive about this. (And no, I'm not in denial; I expect that > networks will continue to MitM, but we'll never be rid of the beast > until we have a viable alternative). > > --- > I understand that the aim is to solicit human input as a prerequisite > of authorizing network access. A secondary goal is to provide > programmatic access to status information, primarily time remaining, > in support of knowing how to get back to the first part. > > Those goals could be (minimally) achieved by discovering two pieces of > information: > - the time remaining on the network > - where to direct human eyeballs if a change to this time is desired > > There is some additional information that could be interesting later, perhaps: > - programmatic access to login/logoff functions (useful if time-based > charging is involved) > - information about network paths that are not gated (though I'm > struggling a little to justify this, it's a common enough feature, we > might like to support it, noting that this is usually discovered via a > portal page, which could be sufficient). > > _______________________________________________ > Captive-portals mailing list > Captive-portals@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/captive-portals -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/ _______________________________________________ Captive-portals mailing list Captive-portals@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/captive-portals
