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Re: The problem we could solve (re github etc.)

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 09 June 2021 21:42 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>, IETF general list <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: The problem we could solve (re github etc.)
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John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
    > I suppose for people who like this stuff it would make more sense to
    > take a tip from wifi and arrange for pairing by pushing a button when
    > you are
    > physically next to the device.  There is probably some standards work we
    > could do, something like a physical proximity profile for SASL.

MATTER (CHIP) already has a way to encode the 27,000<*> different ways you could
push a button into a QRcode or SRV record so that (I think) your phone can
show you a movie explaining how to get it into pairing mode.

<*>- may be slightly exagerated.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide

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