Hi Danny, > > So lets take one step back. One question to always ask is how much and > > which questions you can ask to a normal user that they can answer without > > calling an expert. And that is how the ConnMan API is designed. > > We only will forward questions to the agent (aka the UI of the user) that > > he/she can answer. > > Frankly We yet understood provision API (its design) before. > Based on your helpful clearance, provision service is for specific purpose of > operator's or administrator's requirements. > > I hope that it might be really helpful to get use cases for provision. > It seems for me that ConnMan documents does not fully describe provision APIs > in an easy way.
maybe the ConnMan documentation lacks some details here. We are happy to improve that or even accept patches from you to improve it. Main use cases for provisioning will be corporate networks, universities or operators as you correctly pointed out. And in that case you have admins that can provide users with proper provision files. Have a look at how the iPhone handles this. They call it profiles and they make a distinction between provisioning and configuration profiles, but in the end it is the same. An external entity is responsible for installing and controlling the profiles. And that entity is normally your device management support. And ConnMan should be just a consumer of this. > > The model of using WISPr 2.0 with EAP over HTTPS is a bit more cleaner > > since the WISPr model gives you context of what network you are. > > ConnMan right now only supports WISPr 1.0 since we have not yet seen 2.0 > > hotspots deployed at all. > > In addition, we couldn't understand WISPr correctly. > It hardly find materials :). > If you have any references, can you share? the Wikipedia details are a bit minimal, but still helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISPr It is a standard designed by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and you check up on it here: http://www.wballiance.com/ And an alternate download for the specification can be found here: http://marcelotoledo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/wispr_v10.pdf The WISPr support has been used in Hotspots from T-Mobile, Orange, BT, Swisscom and many many more. It is heavy utilized by iPass and Boingo and also FON. Regards Marcel _______________________________________________ connman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
