[AG-TECH] room node certificates

[Ivan R. Judson]

> So - on a machine on which a node is running, each 'operator' - i.e. 
> separate user on that machine - will have to manually edit 
> their profile on 
> that machine to properly identify this machine as a room node, for 
> instance, rather than a personal node that they may be 
> bringing to the 
> venue on an ad hoc basis.

First, You should believe this is going to be easy for the users, second, we
haven't delved into the profile aspect of this yet. Probably (I'm just
positing here, this can change) the profile will be something that's user
specific and there will be an additional node profile for the shared node.
The sum of these will be used in some way to represent what's going on - for
the personal node, there will be some profile generated by the personal node
stuff. There might be better solutions -- we haven't gotten to these details
yet so just know that we're going to design for :

1) ease of use for the users
2) rigorous security/authorization solutions (so you know who's who)
3) flexible configurability

> It would seem that it would be appropriate to include a way 
> for room nodes 
> to apply a 'node' profile to all users (either overriding or 
> supplementing 
> the user profile) on that node.  Administratively, the 
> present situation 
> makes it difficult to preserve the identity of the room node 
> without having 
> to manually (either by the user or the admin) massage the 
> user profile.

I typed the above before I digested this, I think we agree -- I lean towards
supplement, as opposed to override.

> Or am I missing something here?

Not that I know of :-)

--Ivan