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	Title		: Public Wireless LAN roaming issues
	Author(s)	: J. Caron
	Filename	: draft-caron-public-wlan-roaming-issues-00.txt
	Pages		: 12
	Date		: 11-Feb-02
	
Public wireless Internet access zones based on IEEE 802.11 [1] 
wireless LAN technology are becoming common. However, many issues 
are impeding further adoption of the technology by end-users, in 
particular the inability or difficulty to roam between the networks 
of different providers. This document aims to document these issues, 
show how they are different from roaming in other contexts such as 
dialup access to the Internet or GSM roaming, and how current 
solutions do not fully address these issues. Future documents will 
try to address these issues with practical solutions.

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