We will not be doing 802.1X authentication on any wired ports. Remember, we really want an open network, while giving people a way of encrypting their wireless traffic. This time, in preparation for Beijing, we have the requirement to authenticate that people using the wireless network are attending the IETF meeting.
I will suggest that in Beijing we may need to physically authenticate people coming into the terminal room, but I will leave the decision on whether and how to do that up to the host in Beijing. Chris. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljit...@muada.com>wrote: > Sorry about my previous message, this was a private message that I > accidentally sent to the list. The one I really had in mind: > > On 12 jul 2010, at 19:53, Chris Elliott wrote: > > > I thought we were talking about how to do this for the meeting in > Maastricht and then in Beijing. I agree that manufacturers could make this > easier for all of us. > > I have no idea where or why this discussion went off the rails (must be the > heat, note that Maastricht is in the part of the Netherlands that gets the > warmest in summer) but: > > WPA works just fine on anything that rolled out of the factory in the last > half decade. It's also not particularly hard to use: select network, type > user name, type password, click "connect" or words to the same effect. There > is no step 5. > > I would even argue that restricting everything to WPA2 and 802.11g or > better would be entirely reasonable by now. > > BTW: do we get 802.1x on the wired ports in the terminal room? > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > -- Chris Elliott chell...@pobox.com
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