[OpenWireless Tech] WiFi Direct tech reference?

[michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com]

Hi!

On 09:16 Fri 02 Nov     , John Gilmore wrote:
> > > 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).

Full ACK!

	-Michi
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