Tuesday, February 25, 2003

The Wi-Fi Alliance releases its draft on wireless ISP roaming (wISPr, pronounced "whisper"): It's a cogent and not overly long document full of sensible recommendations. The goal of this document is provide a framework in which roaming could be facilitated by having systems that act the same way, regardless of wISP. Without a common framework, wISPs have two choices: adopt the Boingo approach of building client software that handles the many, many authentication systems out there invisible to the user; or build back-end systems that can handle logins from any partner and pass messages over the Internet back to that peer's authentication system. Both are problematic. [80211b News] 3:41:37 PM    comment []