[AG-TECH] Lurkers in the venues

[Robert Olson]

We can turn on security on more (all?) of the rooms, and come up with a way 
for the scheduling folks to set up the APIs.

And hey, if doing this would get you to write an AGDP on it all the better :-).

Are you submitting an AGDP document on beer selection?

--bob

At 12:59 PM 1/28/2002 -0700, Don Morton wrote:
>Well, as I think about it, this idea of passing keys around before
>a secure meeting seems a WHOLE lot simpler than trying to come
>up with some patchwork integrative approach :)
>
>I see on the Reservations page that secure rooms are available by
>special request, and there's some mention of needing to provide
>venues logins, which makes sense.  I wonder if it might be more
>efficient to streamline the reservation of the existing secure
>rooms, with some documentation.  Right now, I'm not clear on exactly
>how we'd make reservations and then, how we'd access the secure
>room (though I suspect it's intuitive).  And, hell, I'd be willing to do
>an AGDP document on it :)
>
>Thanks,
>
>DOn
>
>Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> > Don,
> >
> > We have been thinking about how to implement a generallized access
> > control mecahnism.  Maybe Bob can talk about current thinking in
> > that direction.. in the mean time the secure room avoids this by using
> > the key distribution as an ad hoc access control.  We can build as many
> > secure rooms as we need until we have the automatic access control in
> > place.
> >
> > --Rick
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Don Morton wrote:
> >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > As some of you have probably noticed, it's getting harder and harder
> > > to have a semi-confidential meeting in one of the venues (e.g. proposal
> > > related stuff) without having one or two sites sitting in there with
> > > 4 videos, audio turned on, sometimes even testing audio in the middle
> > > of a meeting.  Although appeals to the community at large probably help
> > > to reduce this, it ain't working, and my uneducated guess suggests it
> > > will get worse - it seems like more and more, folks are jumping in
> > > who seem unaware of things like this mailing list, the general
> > > AG community, etc.
> > >
> > > So, is there any sort of thought/interest in some mechanism that allows
> > > someone who's actually reserved a venue to control access to that venue
> > > during the time reserved?  For example, consider the following:
> > >
> > > - Joe/Jane Sixpack makes a venues reservation on behalf of whatever group
> > >   wants to come together and meet
> > >
> > > - Joe/Jane Sixpack (you can tell we're still thinking about this Beer
> > >   Symposium :) :)) is automagically emailed some random access code 
> that's
> > >   good during the event
> > >
> > > - This access code allows Joe/Jane Sixpack access to some GUI that 
> essentially
> > >   allows for blocking out the "riff raff" :) :) :)
> > >
> > > Obviously, it's "do-able" but I don't understand the venues system 
> well enough
> > > to
> > > understand the feasibility of integration into existing components - 
> probably a
> > > real bear.....
> > >
> > > Thanks!!
> > >
> > > Don
> > > --
> > > Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
> > > Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
> > > Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
> > >
> > >
>
>
>--
>Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
>Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
>Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
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