[OpenWireless Tech] WiFi Direct tech reference?

[John Gilmore]

> If multiple routers nearby use the same Radius server or they are
> federated, one WiFi Direct router could deal with setting up access ...

Do you have a technical reference for how the WiFi Direct protocol
works?  So far I have only been able to find marketing materials for
it.

> > Those "identity providers" I mentioned could be any kind of local
> > organizations, and you'd have an account with them.

I thought that the EFF concept of Open Wireless was free, unregistered
connectivity that's "too cheap to meter".  Like all the folks during
and after Storm Sandy who had power in their houses and ran
cellphone-charging cords out so their neighbors could stay connected.
Nobody was checking IDs and refusing to let the homeless, the
unwashed, the undocumented, or the unfamiliar plug in.  Open wireless
networks should be the same, or they aren't worthy of the name.

The challenges are less about authentication, and more about jiggering
the standards to offer Diffie-Hellman style over-the-air privacy even
during free and open connections, plus providing priority of service
to the access point owner's family (versus the neighborhood users).

	John Gilmore