On 2009-12-08, at 14:52, Mark Andrews wrote: >> Why would "web browsers" have a hot-spot button? > > Because that would be a easy way to implement this sort of thing.
I once thought that PANA was the clean answer to this. Now the PANA effort has concluded, and documents have been published, but reading through them I can't tell whether PANA is in fact any kind of answer to this. RFC 4058 RFC 5191 It'd be nice if there was a hotspot authentication solution buried in there, somewhere. Joe Begin forwarded message: > From: IESG Secretary <iesg-secret...@ietf.org> > Date: 4 December 2009 21:30:03 GMT > To: ietf-annou...@ietf.org > Cc: p...@ietf.org, basavaraj.pa...@nokia.com > Subject: WG Action: Conclusion of Protocol for carrying Authentication for > Network Access (pana) > list-id: "IETF announcement list. No discussions." <ietf-announce.ietf.org> > > The Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access (pana) working > group in the Internet Area has concluded. > > The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Ralph Droms. > > The mailing list will remain active. > > This working group is closed after successfully completing its chartered > work. The mailing list will be kept open for possible questions and > discussions around PANA. In addition, several remaining documents about > PANA extensions have been submitted for the individual submission process. > The documents will progressed as soon as their necessary revisions become > available. > > The ADs would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the PANA > specification work, the chairs, Mark Townsley who was the responsible AD > when the PANA base documents were published, and various reviewers who > helped greatly improve the PANA specifications. > _______________________________________________ > IETF-Announce mailing list > ietf-annou...@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce >
