<no hats> Hi there all, I have a draft that I'd like some review / feedback on. It will likely be AD sponsored (it doesn't really fit in any working groups).
It is designed to help make the captive portal experience better^W less bad. We've all experienced this -- you arrive at a hotel or coffee-shop. You open your laptop and connect to the Hilton_Guest network (or whatever) and then nothing happens... You click refresh on your (in this day and age) https:// pages, and either they just hang, or you get some unintelligible SSL error about the certificate not matching the site you were trying to get to... or you have a VPN / proxy, in which case *nothing* happens. You kill the VPN, still nothing. You curse a few times, then notice that DNS isn't working. After some futzing (and more swearing) you disable your local validating resolver, and update resolv.conf to use the hotel network. Eventually you get a web page that tells you you can get to the Internet for the low low price of $9.95 for 24hours. 3 hours later the process repeats. After throwing your laptop on the floor and jumping up and down you redo the captive portal dance and continue using the 'net. Now, obviously the bestest possible outcome would be if there were no captive portals, but, well, that ain't going to happen.... so, this document lets DHCP / RA *tell* your machine where the CP is, so your OS can make a connection as soon as you try access the Internet. Yup, there are many more details, go read the draft... http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dhc-capport-05 W This technique is complementary with the Wi-Fi Alliance: Hotspot 2.0 / PassPoint "ASRA" - Additional Steps Required for Access idea... -- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf _______________________________________________ OPSAWG mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg
