All this chat about the Apple Petition yet I don’t seem to find a link for it anywhere? Did I miss this in past messages? Can’t seem to locate anything..
Thanks J From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Garry Peirce Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:16 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple Petition I’m in support of the collective request to help enable further operational flexibility, although also not sure Apple will feel enough pressure to assist. To the first item: ‘That Apple establish a way for Apple TV's (and other Bonjour/Airplay enabled devices) be accessible across multiple IPv4 and IPv6 sub-nets.” Isn’t this item solved to a degree by wide area DNS-SD? If not, I assume this is left open to solve by either making it use a routable mcast addr or by creating some non-standard solution. Controls will be needed to make sense of all the advertised services and possibly for security/privacy reasons. I would think navigating a large Bonjour enabled subnet for a production service must be an ugly exercise - nevermind if enabled to pass L2 boundaries. Who remembers those IPX service filtering ACLs? Request #2 might soon follow to network vendors to be able to support Bonjour service filtering. For production services, wide area DNS-SD seems a better tool to me, as opposed to using the wild west of zeroconf end device advertisements or some special hardware solution. We’ve trialed it (static entries) for printing and it seems to work well. This leverages our existing DNS infrastructure, allows for control of the advertised entries, and a uniform naming convention making it easier to identify the service. One could also opt to block 224.0.0.251 altogether, if there is concern about unnecessary device traffic. So in tandem to supporting this request, I’d also be interested in anyone’s recap of their wide area DNS-SD (WAB) environment, the services being advertised , how it is scaling, and any major stumbling blocks. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 4:00 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple Petition Please consider this- as we get to the point where we have an agreed on document, say by this Friday, and we find an online petition site to use where individuals can "sign" on in whatever form that takes before we close the signing window and present it to Apple- are each one of us able to do so on behalf of our institutions or organizations? If you need to seek permission, now is the time. If a CIO or Director is the only one allowed to make such public-facing declarations on behalf of your school/or org, it would be good to start working the notion. Ideally, no one would overstep their position by jumping on this worthy endeavor. Lee H. Badman Wireless Architect/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Andy Voelker Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 12:44 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple Petition That confuses me as well. It is obviously built in to many other iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPad) and has been for some time. Why the change? I suspect it just due to the GUI difference. If so, that’s easily fixable. -- Andy Voelker Manager of Student Computing in the Technology Commons WCU Staff Senator Western Carolina University Check the status of your IT requests at any time at http://help.wcu.edu/ ! From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Voll, Toivo Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 1:28 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple Petition Also, for me, the lack of support for WPA2-Enterprise is a head-scratcher. If they go through the trouble of supporting the rest of the encryption schemes, and obviously support it on a bunch of their other products, why randomly leave it out of some products? I’d prioritize that a bit more, personally. -- Toivo Voll Network Engineer Information Technology Communications University of South Florida ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
