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.
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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 <iljitsch@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
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