Re: meeting ietf-legacy ssid

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> On 12 Jul 2017, at 16:06, Randy Bush <randy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> Why not just turn it off and see what happens?
>> because the noc thinks of the attendees as those strange critters
>> called "customers."  this creates implications for service continuity.
>> [JL] Fair enough. How about any traffic to that SSID pops a user
>> message that says this is an old SSID and is being phased out, please
>> change to another one now, etc. The CAPPORT WG may have some running
>> code they can use to try this out. And as others have said, I would
>> bet that most prior attendees have many IETF SSIDs in their config and
>> turning one off will just result in the OS picking a different one on
>> the list.
> 
> ripe meeting solution, e.g. renaming the ietf-legacy ssid to
> ietf-legacy##, for every meeting.

Nice idea; would force people to consciously choose it, and see the alternatives, rather than keep using it by default.

> from the discussion so far, it is not clear that there are no folk
> depending on legacy; excuse the double negative.

Tim





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