Presence and IntComm WG

[Alan Whinery <>]

OK,

It's kind of cool here this morning, too.

Tell me how many addresses for everything and I will give you the 
numbers for the "public" net. I'm always inclined to add a couple to the 
number you give, so either don't pad, or tell me you're padding.

I will respond today.

The way things are shaping up, it kind of looks like there isn't any 
need for "static authentications", if everything's going to be on the 
same L2 blob. Keep in mind that anything with a Java-capable browser can 
authenticate itself, with the instructions you will recieve on Tuesday 
or so. It'll be basically :  Load a web page, enter your 
email-address-of-record, the password that you will choose on your 
initial visit, and voila.

So, cogitate about authentication, let me know about that, as well.

AW

Jeremy George wrote:

>  As I recall ALS this chilly, snow-filled holiday morning it uses ARP
> (or is it RARP?) to find the IP address from the MAC address.  So, the
> ALS server, at minimum, must be in the same layer2 domain as the UAs.
>
> - Jeremy
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Ben Teitelbaum wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:46:49 -0500
> > From: Ben Teitelbaum 
> > <>
> > Reply-To: 
> >
> > To: 
> >
> > Subject: Re: [wg-pic] Re: Pre-assigned addresses for Hawaii
> >
> > All,
> >
> > No one has chimed in yet to support or refute my suspicion that we
> > want addresses on the public authenticated net, not the speaker/demo
> > net.  We want to be close to users' machines, especially for room
> > weather pings, and we don't want to have to worry about routing
> > policies that make it difficult to "reach one side from the other".
> >
> > In order to bind "pals.internet2.edu" appropriately, I need to know
> > what we are doing (and possibly need new addresses from Alan) by
> > Tuesday.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- ben
> >
> > Ben Teitelbaum 
> > <>
> >  writes:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > It sounds to me like we might *only* want addresses on the public
> > > authenticated net.  
> > >
> > > -- ben
> > >      
> > Alan Whinery 
> > <>
> >  writes:
> >
> >    
> >
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> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > OK,
> > >
> > > If I haven't mentioned it, know that there are two networks for the
> > > TIP2004 conferences.
> > >
> > > I just sent Ben addresses for the Speaker/Demo net.
> > > The other net is the Public Authenticated net, for attendee wireless,
> > > terminal room, laptop bar, where all of your participants' user machines
> > > will be.
> > >
> > > You may want some fixed addresses on the public network as well, and
> > > some MAC-based static authentications, if you are to reach one side from
> > > the other. If so, sending us mac addresses in advance is good. Don't
> > > delay shipping or anything, but it would be good.
> > >
> > > AW
> > >      
>
>