Does anyone have some good pointers about what is exactly required of a service providing (presumanly "free" for some values of free like Aberdeen is doing and Edinburgh is planning) public Wifi? And how the minimum standard can be met while avoiding intrusiveness?
How does this interact operationally with the (inevitable) NAT? Does it mean there is an implicit requirement for keeping pre-translation Netflow data? Do people usually put in obnoxious transparent proxies and just log HTTP traffic? What about HTTPS? What about other protocols since we all know the Internet is not the web? Have we (the netops community) completely given up on the idea that it's the job of an ISP to deliver packets without molesting them? Is it the consensus that such a public-access Wifi network is an ISP in that sense or is it a different animal where the traditional rules and ethics do not apply? Would very much like to see Edinburgh get this right if it goes ahead, though honestly I'm not really sure what "right" is anymore... -w
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