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Re: [Captive-portals] A view from a WiFi provider on captive portal requirements, challenges and improvements

Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> Tue, 18 April 2017 15:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Captive-portals] A view from a WiFi provider on captive portal requirements, challenges and improvements
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> On Apr 18, 2017, at 08:21, James Wood <james.wood@purplewifi.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> First of all, great progress appears to have been made with 7710 and
> capport/icmp-unreach. Good job!
> 
> As a global WiFi provider I would like add our thoughts on the discussions
> to date along with my personal views of the problems/challenges we face with
> captive portals today. I'm hoping I can contribute to this WG by expressing
> views from the 'other side', and why captive portals are still important to
> WiFi operators.

Personally it think these are some valuable observations about the goals of the parties offering the service. When we first had a BOF on the captive portal draft it seemed important to me that for the work to be useful it would have to result in a less adversarial approach to interacting with portals. That starts imho with signaling but it gets quickly down to user interface details which is not an area the IETF is traditionally good in.

I hope that portal designers and operators will see interaction and involvement here as worthwhile.

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