Jason, this is excellent!  Having something along the lines of what you 
call out here out of the box would be great, especially if it was very 
clear how to "configure" said setup w/o having to resort to "legacy" (e.g. 
ifup/down/config) tools.

This would also be especially useful with future/planned boards that have 
builtin WiFi and/or BT.  And as a stretch, maybe even an iOS/Android 
companion app to help with setup/onboarding.  I understand that the BBB is 
supposed to be an embedded systems "learning" platform, so maybe having 
something so consumer friendly is asking a lot.  Even so, there seems to be 
an inordinate number of issues posted here concerning initial networking 
setup, so maybe something like this isn't so far off track as many people 
struggle with this.  Addressing the whole "onboarding" issue is also a huge 
deal for anyone considering what it takes to make a consumer friendly 
device.  A reference implementation would be a great learning experience.  
There are not a lot (maybe no) open source solutions to this problem.  I do 
know that the AllJoyn folks have defined an OnBoarding service spec to help 
address this, but there isn't much as far as implementation here yet.  
There may be other efforts (OIC?), but I am unaware of them.

Good thoughts!

ba

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 8:39:24 AM UTC-8, Jason Kridner wrote:
>
> Perhaps we need to fully define the requirement such that experts can 
> provide the lowest memory and least complex solution?
>
>

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