Seconded… So many other things could be said, but many of them are not very
nice.
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv
On Behalf Of Johnston, Ryan
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 1:18 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] Re:
I forgot to finish one line
-I want eduroam for privileged access and other guests get free open-access
with less resources. I will just use WPA3 Wi-Fi protected access for
Open-Access, no hassle, encryption, no complicated roaming needed.
> On Aug 17, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Philippe Hanset
>
Why not indeed ?
If I go back to my WLAN manager hat I would think:
-Not everyone has an account with a commercial provider (and even if I do, my
kids do not)
-I would like to give a different style of access to the EDU community in
General (I do not want thousands of lines of domains in my
Jeff,
For some of us the Starbucks equivalency statement doesn’t fit. I’m
specifically in a situation where I do not want to give anyone and everyone
easy access to our network. Half of our campus is situated in downtown Chicago
amongst all the high-rises and tourist locations. I do not
I don’t see eduroam dissolving. Each vendor’s implementation of OpenRoaming
(assuming they integrate) is going to vary and may have cost impact. AFAIK, one
large wireless vendor requires a very expensive subscription / platform in
order to interconnect. If the eduroam US TLRS can handle all of
I’m not trying to get out of a business, but Internet2 could eventually get out
of the radius/eduroam business. Unless I’m mistaken, at the point an
institution federates directly with openroaming, the need for eduroam
diminishes. Obviously it’s going to take time, but if there is a push to
What business are you trying to get out of specifically? OpenRoaming is a way
for federations of organizations and/or individual organizations to
interconnect. Eduroam would start to mean “less” to end users, as they wouldn’t
see an “eduroam” ESSID anymore, but there is still value in a trust
Why not the other way around, and standardize on OpenRoaming, and have
everything else become a member of it? Do we still need eduroam at that point?
Do we care if the client device is using their ATT, Spectrum, or college
credentials?
I’m reminded that in EDU we often fix problems nobody
