Le 01/07/2010 17:26, Fred Baker a écrit : > While it is new in IETF meetings, it is far from unusual in WiFi networks to > find some form of authentication. This happens at coffee shops, college > campuses, corporate campuses, and people's apartments. I think I would need > some more data before I concluded this was unreasonable. >
This is about to become law in several European countries (or maybe it already *is* law in some), and the signing-up process protects the WIFI provider from liability by having the user agree to an acceptable use policy (AUP), a process consisting of ticking a box. Kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf