[AG-TECH] Lurkers in the venues

[Don Morton]

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
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> > Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
> > Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
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> >
> >


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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