There's also this terrible idea from an age ago, which like 7710 uses
DHCP: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5986/ Unlike 7710, it
produces a name.
On 13 March 2017 at 07:14, David Bird wrote:
> HI Tommy,
>
> I agree, there is synergy, particularly as it relates to our desire to have
> a HTTP API like the one in your I-D.
>
> A few high-level comments:
>
> - Could RFC 7710 be used to identify the PvD?
>
> - Do you envision this API being implemented in NAS devices (by vendors) or
> portals (by hotspot web/portal developers)?
>
> - In section 5.3 Reachability, would the client be learning all the
> available resources (e.g. the walled garden)? As a hotspot operator, I would
> probably prefer only giving this information on a need-to-know basis and not
> expose all my partners (advertisers, roaming partners, etc) to every visitor
> upon arrival.
>
> - I believe we could improve (real-time) signaling with capport ICMP (and
> the overall capport architecture)
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Tommy Pauly wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wanted to give the CAPPORT group a heads up about some related work in
>> the explicit discovery of Provisioning Domains (PvDs), that provides one way
>> of discovering and interacting with Captive Portals and other features of a
>> network:
>>
>> Proposals to discover Provisioning Domains
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bruneau-pvd/
>>
>> PvDs are a concept from MIF, and before that group closed, one of the open
>> questions was how to discover and communicate explicit information about
>> networks and prefix ranges to a device. We've been working on this with
>> Cisco, Apple, and Google contributors, and we think that there is a lot of
>> potential synergy with the captive portal discovery.
>>
>> The document also goes into various tradeoffs of approaches to getting
>> this information, which is a relevant conversation for how we discover and
>> contact captive portals as well.
>>
>> Please take a read through and let us know your thoughts!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tommy Pauly
>> Apple
>>
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