- From: Randall Gellens <rg+ietf@qualcomm.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:43:44 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Apps Discuss <apps-discuss@ietf.org>
- Cc: Jan Algermissen <algermissen1971@me.com>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In today's APPAREA/APPSWG session, Mark briefly talked about this draft, and when mentioning the 511 code, said that his intent was not to encourage captive portal interception as a technique for network access authorization or authentication, but rather to reduce the harm that such mechanisms cause. I agree with all these goals, but in looking at draft-nottingham-http-new-status-03.txt, I wonder if it would be helpful to add some text in section 6 that mentions some of the ill effects of the method, and mentions or points to a few better alternative mechanisms for authorizing network access. -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only -------------- Randomly selected tag: --------------- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
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